added October 7, 2005

Released: 2005/03/02

You need at least a 386 machine with 20 mb ram to run BG-Rescue Linux.
To use the optional VESA graphic modes You need a VESA 2.0 compilant VGA card.
The entire system runs in ram, so you can remove the floppys/cd after booting.

cramfs, devfs, ext2, ext3, iso9660, minix, msdos, ntfs 2.1.6b (rw), proc, ramfs, reiserfs, tmpfs, udf, umsdos, vfat, nfs

For a list visit BG-Rescue's web sit

added October 16, 2005

If you have only 32 Mb physical RAM and want to use some of the modules on the cdrom then for instance mount first a filesystem (e.g. msdos) and install a swapfile

Check this text file for a simple list of utilities included and check the ChangeLog file for information on new features in the latest version.

added November 5, 2005

Not stated

FAT/VFAT, ext2, ext3, and reiserfs v3 are supported in the kernel. NTFS is also supported via command-line utilities.

contains system utilities, such as fdisk, mc (midnight commander), parted, ntfsresize, and more

added October 11, 2005

At this point, tomsrtbt requires about 8meg to boot, even more to unpack.

From tomsrtbt's web site

“tomsrtbt is
"The most GNU/Linux on one floppy disk" for: rescue recovery panic & emergencies tools to keep in your shirt pockets whenever you can't use a hard drive”