System Rescue CD 2.0 | 280 MB

System Rescue CD - a system for rapid recovery of the operating system after the collapse. Made as a bootable CD based on Gentoo Live CD and includes a set of administrative tools, can be installed on USB-stick. Kernel distribution supports the most commonly used file systems - ext2/ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660, as well as network Samba and NFS.

What's new in System Rescue CD 2.0:

Standard kernels based on the Long-Term-Supported 2.6.35 kernel (2.6.35.10)
Alternative kernels based on the more recent linux-2.6.36 kernel (2.6.36.2)
The squash filesystem is now compressed using XZ instead of LZMA
Updated firmwares in both the initramfs and in the main filesystem
xf86-video-nouveau is the new default video driver for Nvidia cards
Updated GNU Parted to version 2.3 with patches from Ubuntu-10.10
Updated GParted to 0.7.1 (fixes names with dmraid and mount points paths)
Updated fsarchiver to 0.6.12 (fixes possible problems to save the rootfs)
Updated initramfs software (programs involved in the boot process)
Updated aufs filesystem to version 2.1 (another union filesystem)
Updated xorg-server to 1.9.3 (graphical server and drivers)
Updated Network-Manager programs to new major version 0.8.x
Dropped alternative graphical server (Xfbdev) which is not supported
Added a 64bit version of memtester (/ usr/sbin/memtester-64bit)
Added app-misc/tmux (Terminal multiplexer: fork of the GNU Screen project)
Option "dodhcp" accepts comma-separated interfaces (eg: "dodhcp = eth0, eth2")