I’ve recorded some videos and uploaded them to Youtube. You will find the tour one and a link to the rest of them at the Rescatux page.

Here’s the tour video:

and here’s the link to the rest of the videos.

Rescatux 0.30x series videos

Be aware that my English is far from being perfect ;).

That nearly completes the roadmap as you can see below. However I will soon release an extended roadmap for 0.30 stable release because some other issues need to be solved. Don’t worry they are minor bugs 😉 .

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
• (0.30b8) 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).

adrian15 is giving a Rescatux presentation at:
adrian15 da una charla de Rescatux en:

Lleida Lan Magical Party.  Lleida . Lleida .  Spain

in Spanish.
en Castellano.

Where: Dónde: http://magical-party.blogspot.com.es/p/com-arribar.html
When: Cuándo: Saturday, 19 May 2012 – 16:00h local time. Hora local.
More info: Más información: http://magical-party.blogspot.com.es/p/conferencies.html

I’ll try to record myself but it’s not sure at all.
Miraré de grabarme pero no lo tengo claro.

Actualización. Here there are the recordings. Aquí están las grabaciones.:

• Rescatux talk Lleida May 2012 – Charla Rescatux Lleida Mayo 2012 – Presentation – ODP
• Rescatux talk Lleida May 2012 – Charla Rescatux Lleida Mayo 2012 – Presentation – PDF
• Rescatux talk Lleida May 2012 – Charla Rescatux Lleida Mayo 2012 – Youtube video

In the last couple of days I’ve been working on findiso boot parametre for Debian live. Findiso is an originally grml boot parametre which scans all the drives searching for a given iso. Once the iso has been found it loop mounts it and the debian live systems boots up as always.

This is an improvement over the fromiso/isofrom boot parametre which forces you to specify in which drive exactly the iso is found.

Grml is a Debian Live derivative as Rescatux is. Either I had to apply (and maintain) the findiso patch myself or improve it so that it would be accepted into Debian Live. I’ve decided the second option. Just wait a few weeks so that it’s released in unstable and then just use findiso without having to apply any patch.

The findiso parametre will solve the 0.30b4 usb issues.

You can follow the bug status at Add findiso boot parametre debian issue.

There might be some problems for making use of this functionality from grub2 but I’ll deal with that too.

TechChaser1 has done a nice video about Recovering a Windows Password with Rescatux . He insists that tool is legal and guaranteed (not sure about this last bit 😉 ). The great thing about the video is that he is recording an actual computer with a camera, he does no cuts and he explains himself what steps he performs.

Sometimes the screen is a little blurred but the video is more funny than my current Rescatux videos for 0.2X version.

Enjoy the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmAsNpz93Lk

As Max says the Universal USB installer no longer seems to work for 0.30 beta 4 version.

It does totally makes sense. Universal USB installer it is designed to deal with isolinux based cdroms which are the most of them. I suppose they have not thought grub2 based live cds. So… What do to then?

As I have explained in the Rescatux wiki you should work with the iso (which happens to be an isolinux iso) which it is inside the iso you are downloading.

Another issue comes when using the official method. It does not work. Yes, it works. The usb boots and Super Grub2 Disk is fully functional but trying to boot any of the Rescatux options fails. As I explain in the issue the main reason for this for failing is that making Rescatux to boot from SG2D is more a workaround that a final solution. Either I improve the workaround (detect partition UUID when no label is found) or I implement the debian-live requested improvements for the grml fromiso patch which it is the final fix.

If you still want to use the official method for putting Rescatux into the USB what you should do… Yes, you have guessed… use the iso inside the iso as in the Universal USB installer case.

The nice thing about this is that I would have found this last problem myself if I had tested it… but I don’t try usb versions of Rescatux myself, just the cdrom version. I will have to improve that. 🙂

I hate to write down roadmaps because I hadly never achieve them. Rescatux 0.30 was only going to be the place where to put the new UI. Now I want it to have a new feature (Linux password change) so that someone that has Rescatux 0.29 has a reason to download Rescatux 0.30.

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

• (..) 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).

I happen to have too much work currently and I suspect that Rescatux development will be postponed for a month. Well, a part from English, Spanish and Catalan graphical documentation, I have some help from bTactic to complete such features.