Rescatux

This is Rescatux, a Debian Live (based on live-build) CD aimed at easy rescue.

Please visit the official web page of Rescatux, for more information. The URL is http://www.supergrubdisk.org/rescatux/.

== Rescatux live cd unique features ==

These features might be already merged into upstream live-build or they will be asked to be merged there. These features is what make different Rescatux than a regular live-cd which has Rescapp package installed.

• Rescapp package included (which includes self-test)

• Rescatux startup wizard: ** Appears by default centered between two screens (useful when one has a broken screen) ** Change monitor settings ** Change language/locale ** Change keyboard layout ** Turn off VNC Server or change its password

• Lightweight desktop (lxqt)

• Includes both 686 and amd64 kernels

• Arch autodetection in Isolinux bootloader

• Arch autodetection in Grub2 bootloader

• Microsoft signed Secure Boot

• Loopback.cfg support

• SElinux support

• Liveid

• VNC Server on by default

== OBTAIN SOURCE CODE ==

You can obtain most recent source code from out git repository by issuing:

git clone https://github.com/rescatux/rescatux.git rescatux-git

== BUILD INSTRUCTIONS ==

In order to build Rescatux in a Buster system or Buster chroot you need these packages:

live-build (patched as below) imagemagick # Needed for logo generation syslinux # Needed for logo generation syslinux-utils # Needed for logo generation

If you want to build also source code you need the git package to be installed.

== Rescatux's live-build ==

I'm trying to push upstream (live-build) my improvements on live-build:

• Arch autodetection in Isolinux bootloader
• Support for loopback.cfg
• SElinux
• Liveid

in the meanwhile you need to get, build and install live-build's live-build package from:

https://github.com/rescatux/live-build/ (Tag: rescatux-0.73rc1-tmp1)

Then make sure you install: policycoreutils coreutils selinux-utils selinux-policy-default packages so that SElinux support works ok.

== Rescatux's live-boot ==

I'm trying to push upstream (live-boot) my improvements on live-boot:

• Liveid .

Rescatux live-boot will be fetched from Rescatux repo when building the rescatux disk.

Were you to need to build it manually (and upload to a repo of your own so that it's taken into account) you can have its source code here:

https://github.com/rescatux/live-boot/ (Tag: rescatux-0.75b5-tmp1)

Note: Make sure you build both the i386 buster and amd64 buster versions.

=== Isolinux based image ===

Edit these variables from make_common file if needed:

MIRROR_BOOTSTRAP MIRROR_CHROOT SID_MIRROR BACKPORTED_PASSWD

Using an Buster system or chroot run at the Rescatux source code directory:

./make-rescatux.sh

This will generate an image like: rescatux-0.30b7.iso in rescatux-release directory.

=== SG2D based image ===

(Note: At March 2020 this feature won't work properly without being updated.) (Note: So this is an unsupported script.)

You need to have installed GNU GRUB2 in your system, at least the grub-mkrescue and grub-mkfont binaries. You also need to have Super Grub2 Disk source code.

Edit SG2D_SOURCE_DIRECTORY variable in make-rescatux-sg2d.sh file. Its value should be path to your Super Grub2 Disk source code directory.

Using an unstable/jessie system or chroot run at the Rescatux source code directory:

./make-rescatux.sh

and then:

./make-rescatux-sg2d.sh

This will generate an image like: rescatux_cdrom_usb_hybrid_i386_486-amd64_0.30b8_sg2d.iso

=== Make source code ===

Just run:

make-rescatux-and-source-code.sh

which will generate many source code files at:

rescatux-release/rescatux-VERSION/source-code directory.

=== Release ===

The files that usually conform a release are:

Rescatux iso:

rescatux-0.30b7.iso

Rescatux iso md5sum file:

rescatux-0.30b7.iso.md5

Rescatux source code:

rescatux_source_code_0.30b8.tar.gz

which will be found on:

rescatux-release directory.

=== Other notes ===

You can change Rescatux version at VERSION file.

=== About Rescatux logo ===

New Rescatux logo ( 06 July 2014 ) is a mixed and modified image based on these three pictures:

• A Gnu wearing a jacket ** Author: Sarah Katzenell Rabkin ** Url: https://www.gnu.org/graphics/gnu-jacket.html ** License: Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 license (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ccbysa).
• Tux ** Author: lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP ** Url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tux.png ** License: Permission to use and/or modify this image is granted provided you acknowledge me lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP if someone asks.
• Thermometer ** Author: Via Wikimedia commons ** License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)] ** Url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clinical_thermometer_38.7.JPG

You can find it at: live-config/bootloaders/{extlinux,isolinux,pxelinux,syslinux}/splash.svg.in