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Here is the list of all the detailed documentation available in English for the SystemRescue project. You can also read the book if you are new to this project or if you need a step-by-step guide to start.
For the impatient
- Quick start guide: read this if this is the first time you use the livecd
Basic usage
- Overview of the livecd
- Downloading and burning
- How to install SystemRescue on an USB-stick
- Booting SystemRescue and list of boot options supported
- Booting on a serial console
- Installing SystemRescue on the disk
- Starting to use the system
- Network: configuration and programs
- Inventory of the System tools provided
- Mounting an NTFS partition with full Read-Write support
Advanced usage
- Creating a backing-store to keep your modifications
- Installing additional software packages with pacman
- Installing additional packages from AUR with yay
- Configuring SystemRescue with YAML files
- Configuring SystemRescue with YAML files: sysconfig scope
- Creating SystemRescue Modules with custom files or packages
- PXE network booting with SystemRescue
- Booting a broken linux system on the hard disk
- Run your own scripts at start-up with autorun
- Let your own programs take over a virtual terminal for user interaction: autoterminal
- Start programs when the graphical desktop comes up: gui_autostart
- Secure Deletion of Data
- Backup data from an unbootable Windows computer
- Backup and transfer your data using rsync
Administration scripts
- build-zfs-srm: Build ZFS support for SystemRescue
- mountall: Mount all disks and volumes
- Reverse_ssh: Get an SSH access to a SystemRescue host running behind a NAT
- sysrescue-customize: customize SystemRescue ISO-images and add your own files
LVM (Logical Volume Manager)
- LVM: Overview of the logical volume manager
- LVM: How the logical volume manager works
- LVM: Booting linux from LVM volumes
- LVM: Moving the linux rootfs to an LVM volume
- LVM: Making consistent backups with LVM
Disk partitioning
- Introduction to disk partitioning
- Partitions attributes (identifiers, flags, names)
- Standard partitioning tools for Linux
- The new GPT disk Layout for disk partitioning
- Grub: description of the boot stages
- Repairing a damaged Grub