Category Archives: Rescatux Beta

Rescatux 0.31 beta 1 has been released.

Changelog:

• System updated to next Debian Stable Wheezy
• Gparted was updated to 0.12.1 version which includes new option: Attempt data rescue…
• Gpart package was added so that Gparted attempt data rescue option works ok. It can also be used by expert users.

Downloads:

• Rescatux 0.31 beta 1 Cdrom or USB ISO for x86 or amd64 (Berlios)
• (MD5)

Rescatux 0.31b1 size is about 396 Megabytes.

Distro facts:

• Distribution origin is Spanish and not French.
• Packages versions for this release can be found at Rescatux 0.31b1 packages.
• Now it’s based on Debian (Testing) and not Debian (Stable). Rescatux 0.31 stable will probably be based on Debian (Stable) as Wheezy will be stable itself.
• The beta download link is: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/rescatuxdownloads/rescatux-beta/
• Bug tracker is found at: Cenatic Forge Rescatux Issue Tracker

Multi-distro makers warning:

You probably need to update your script to reflect that default kernel is vmlinuz1 instead of old vmlinuz.

Feedback welcome:
I’ve tried myself the distro in my dev environment all the current options and they seem to work ok. Please test the ISO and report back if something that worked on previous stable versions no longer works in this beta version.

Don’t forget that you can use:

• Super Grub(2) Mailing list
• Rescatux Forum
• Chat

Thank you and happy download!

Rescatux 0.30 Release Candidate 1 has been released.

Rescatux 0.30 beta 7 Cdrom or USB ISO for x86 or amd64 MultiMirror #1
Mirror #2
MD5 (372 Megabytes)
Changelog:

• Beta options are described as (BETA).
• Syslinux version has AMD64 boot as the default one.
• Copyright notices were added

So, aproximately in a month time if there is not any special problem I’ll release 0.30 stable at last with a big post aimed at internet press which only copy and paste so that they explain accurately what Rescatux is, what it’s not, and what SGD and SG2D are.

As I said this is Rescatux 0.30 roadmap updated:

Bugs and Feature requests they are found in Forja Cenatic. Thank you Cenatic!

Feature requests

• (0.30b6) Change user password
• (0.30b6) Reset sudoers file

Bugs to be fixed

• (0.30b4) Detect 64bit
• (0.30b6) Bind Ctrl+q to Quit
• (0.30b5) Hard disk order not working with n different than 2

Issues that need to be addressed before the release

• (Web at 15 August 2012) What Rescatux does not do
• (0.30b8) 0.30 series videos
• (0.30rc1) Review Copyright notice
• (0.30b7) Graphical documentation
• (0.30b7) Spanish graphical documentation

Whenever I release a new beta the idea is to copy and paste this roadmap and to replace the dots (..) with the beta version where the feature has been implemented. An example would be: (0.30b3).

Rescatux 0.30 beta 7 has been released.

Rescatux 0.30 beta 7 Cdrom or USB ISO for x86 or amd64 MultiMirror #1
Mirror #2 Mirror #3
MD5 (372 Megabytes)
Changelog:

• Graphical documentation completed.
• Spanish graphical documentation completed.

As I said this is Rescatux 0.30 roadmap updated:

Bugs and Feature requests they are found in Forja Cenatic. Thank you Cenatic!

Feature requests

• (0.30b6) Change user password
• (0.30b6) Reset sudoers file

Bugs to be fixed

• (0.30b4) Detect 64bit
• (0.30b6) Bind Ctrl+q to Quit
• (0.30b5) Hard disk order not working with n different than 2

Issues that need to be addressed before the release

• (..) What Rescatux does not do
• (..) 0.30 series videos
• (..) Review Copyright notice
• (0.30b7) Graphical documentation
• (0.30b7) Spanish graphical documentation

Whenever I release a new beta the idea is to copy and paste this roadmap and to replace the dots (..) with the beta version where the feature has been implemented. An example would be: (0.30b3).

Rescatux 0.30 beta 6 has been released.

Rescatux 0.30 beta 6 Cdrom or USB ISO for x86 or amd64 MultiMirror #1
Mirror #2 Mirror #3
Mirror #4
MD5 MD5 at Mirror #4 (367 Megabytes)
Changelog:

• Ctrl+Q makes Rescapp to exit.
• New option: Change Gnu/Linux password
• New option: Regenerate sudoers file
• New tool: (For experts only): Synaptic
• New tool: (For experts only): Gparted 0.7

As I said this is Rescatux 0.30 roadmap updated:

Bugs and Feature requests they are found in Forja Cenatic. Thank you Cenatic!

Feature requests

• (0.30b6) Change user password
• (0.30b6) Reset sudoers file

Bugs to be fixed

• (0.30b4) Detect 64bit
• (0.30b6) Bind Ctrl+q to Quit
• (0.30b5) Hard disk order not working with n different than 2

Issues that need to be addressed before the release

• (..) What Rescatux does not do
• (..) 0.30 series videos
• (..) Review Copyright notice
• (..) Graphical documentation
• (..) Spanish graphical documentation

Whenever I release a new beta the idea is to copy and paste this roadmap and to replace the dots (..) with the beta version where the feature has been implemented. An example would be: (0.30b3).

Rescatux 0.30 beta 5 has been released.

Rescatux 0.30 beta 5 Cdrom or USB ISO for x86 or amd64 MultiMirror #1
Mirror #2 Mirror #3
MD5 (361 Megabytes)
Changelog:

• Update Grub option documentation was translated into Spanish and Catala thanks to bTactic
• Fix: Findiso boot parametre used from experimental debian live packages. Now Rescatux which includes SG2D should boot and work ok when dd’ed to usbs
• Fixed: Hard disk order not working with n different than 2
• Super Grub2 Disk now loads without Rescatux theme so you see it with the original Super Grub2 Disk colours
• Fixed: Most of the times you booted Rescatux you get a black background and no icons on the desktop.
• Added RAID and LVM2 support for command line experts.

As I said this is Rescatux 0.30 roadmap updated:

Bugs and Feature requests they are found in Forja Cenatic. Thank you Cenatic!

Feature requests

• (..) Change user password
• (..) Reset sudoers file

Bugs to be fixed

• (0.30b4) Detect 64bit
• (..) Bind Ctrl+q to Quit
• (0.30b5) Hard disk order not working with n different than 2

Issues that need to be addressed before the release

• (..) What Rescatux does not do
• (..) 0.30 series videos
• (..) Review Copyright notice
• (..) Graphical documentation
• (..) Spanish graphical documentation

Whenever I release a new beta the idea is to copy and paste this roadmap and to replace the dots (..) with the beta version where the feature has been implemented. An example would be: (0.30b3).

Rescatux 0.30 beta 4 has been released.

Rescatux 0.30 beta 4 Cdrom or USB ISO for x86 or amd64 MultiMirror #1
Mirror #2 Mirror #3
MD5 (355 Megabytes)

• Super Grub2 Disk 1.99b1 is included (Actually it boots from it not from isolinux)
• It autodetects 64bit systems and loads the appropiate kernel accordingly. This will fix most of the errors about not being able to restore Grub.

As I said this is Rescatux 0.30 roadmap updated:

Bugs and Feature requests they are found in Forja Cenatic. Thank you Cenatic!

Feature requests

• (..) Change user password
• (..) Reset sudoers file

Bugs to be fixed

• (0.30b4) Detect 64bit
• (..) Bind Ctrl+q to Quit
• (..) Hard disk order not working with n different than 2

Issues that need to be addressed before the release

• (..) What Rescatux does not do
• (..) 0.30 series videos
• (..) Review Copyright notice
• (..) Graphical documentation
• (..) Spanish graphical documentation

Whenever I release a new beta the idea is to copy and paste this roadmap and to replace the dots (..) with the beta version where the feature has been implemented. An example would be: (0.30b3).

Rescatux 0.30 beta 3 Cdrom or USB ISO for x86 or amd64 Mirror #1 Mirror #2
MD5 (334 Megabytes)

Source code and other downloads
Useful Rescatux Options:

• Restore Grub to the MBR
• Update Grub Configuration
• Filesystem check (Fix forced)
• Fix of Windows MBR (Currently in beta status)
• Blank Windows password
• Boot Info Script

Changelog:

• Hard disk order dialog rewritten into python
• UI was improved with some icons
• Tried to improve Fix of Windows MBR option

Some comments about the release:

This release does not add any new useful options compared to Rescatux 0.29 so you are not advised to renew your Rescatux disk if you already have Rescatux 0.29.

This is the second release of the Rescatux 0.30 series. It is a beta because there are some many changes in the UI. Please comment your experience on the Rescatux forum. Please say your word at Super Grub mailing list or try to find us at Rescatux chat.

The rewrite of a hard disk dialog into Python usually it is not a reason to make a release not even a beta release. But… it is because the current dialog is quite a nightmare to understand. Now you choose a hard disk press on UP button and it moves upwards.

Now that I have managed to implement such a python dialog I think the rest of the Rescatux 0.30 development will be easier. It’s interesting that some people think that Rescatux lacks an application for installing packages (synaptic). I will think about it.

I have also tried to improve the Fix of Windows MBR option but install-mbr command is deceiving me. I might finally rely on syslinux and setting up active partitions.

Waiting for your feedback!

Rescatux 0.30 beta 1 Cdrom or USB ISO for x86 or amd64 Mirror #1 Mirror #2
MD5 (303 Megabytes)

Source code and other downloads
Useful Rescatux Options:

• Restore Grub to the MBR
• Update Grub Configuration
• Filesystem check (Fix forced)
• Fix of Windows MBR (Currently in beta status)
• Blank Windows password
• Boot Info Script

Changelog:

• Main UI was rewritten into Python + QT4 (pyqt4)
• Help is displayed inside an integrated webbrowser

Some comments about the release:

This release does not add any new useful options compared to Rescatux 0.29 so you are not advised to renew your Rescatux disk if you already have Rescatux 0.29.

This is the first release of the Rescatux 0.30 series. It is a beta because there are some many changes in the UI. Please comment your experience on the Rescatux forum. Please say your word at Super Grub mailing list or try to find us at Rescatux chat.

Remember to read License agreement very carefully if you want me to accept your registration to forum

Programming with Python is very fast as it is an interpreted language I can debug at run time. Python is also very powerful because I can write in an object-oriented way. And QT seems to me one of the best UI toolkits. If I am foolish enough I might switch from LXDE to Razor-QT and… you know what… I might drop Iceweasel (Firefox) to include Rekonq.

Waiting for your feedback!