RIP is a versatile bootable CD or floppy disk system designed for rescue, recovery, backup and maintenance tasks. Based on Slackware, the software comes packed with essential tools and utilities for restoring lost or corrupted data on a wide range of systems.
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is an established and highly functional software package that functions as a Slackware-based CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It boasts support for multiple filesystem types including Reiserfs, Reiser4, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS, HFS, MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, and VFAT. RIP includes a plethora of utilities for system recovery, including IDE/SCSI/SATA, PCMCIA, RAID, LVM2, and Ethernet/DSL/cable/PPP/PPPOE network support.
The bootable CD image `RIP-12.4.iso.bin' can be easily written to a CD/DVD disk using popular software tools such as cdrecord/dvdrecord. The kernel version currently supported is 2.6.11.6, which comes with extensive built-in IDE/SATA and SCSI support, in addition to PCMCIA, LVM2, RAID, and Ethernet/cable/dsl/ppp/pppoe/wireless networking support.
Some of the programs included in the RIP package are partimage/partimaged, parted, dump/restore, reiserfsck, fsck.reiser4, fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, mke2fs, e2fsck, tune2fs, debugfs, mkfs.xfs, jfs_mkfs, jfs_fsck, xfs_repair, cdrecord/dvdrecord, mkisofs, dvd rw-format, growisofs, ntfsresize, mkntfs, lynx, mutt, fetchmail, pop3spam, popselect, ncftp, epic irc, tin, telnet, wget, naim, zgv, testdisk, smbclient, smbmount, ssh/sshd, rsync, udp-sender/receiver, lde, blesstivo, rtvpatch, chntpw, cmospwd, grub, grubconfig, smartctl, memtest86, captive-ntfs, ddrescue, dd_rescue, acpitool, dmidecode, hwinfo and lshw.
The software package also includes advanced DVD udf filesystem packet writing tools such as cdrwtool, mkudffs, and pktsetup. Some notable programs included in the package that are used for file system repairs are 'reiserfsck' and 'fsck.reiser4' for the repair and maintenance of a Linux reiserfs and reiser4 file system. The 'xfs_repair' program comes in handy when repairing a Linux xfs filesystem, whereas 'jfs_fsck' is used for checking and repairing a Linux jfs filesystem. The 'e2fsck' program comes in handy for checking and repairing a Linux ext2 or ext3 filesystem, and the 'ntfsresize' program is useful for non-destructively resizing Windows XP/2000/NT4 or Windows Server 2003 NTFS filesystems.
Lastly, 'parted' is a program integrated to create, destroy, resize (fat16/32, ext2/3, reiserfs v3.6), check, copy partitions and respective file systems. It's used to create additional space for new operating systems and reorganize disk usage, copy data between hard disks, and disk imaging. The partition image
The bootable CD image `RIP-12.4.iso.bin' can be easily written to a CD/DVD disk using popular software tools such as cdrecord/dvdrecord. The kernel version currently supported is 2.6.11.6, which comes with extensive built-in IDE/SATA and SCSI support, in addition to PCMCIA, LVM2, RAID, and Ethernet/cable/dsl/ppp/pppoe/wireless networking support.
Some of the programs included in the RIP package are partimage/partimaged, parted, dump/restore, reiserfsck, fsck.reiser4, fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, mke2fs, e2fsck, tune2fs, debugfs, mkfs.xfs, jfs_mkfs, jfs_fsck, xfs_repair, cdrecord/dvdrecord, mkisofs, dvd rw-format, growisofs, ntfsresize, mkntfs, lynx, mutt, fetchmail, pop3spam, popselect, ncftp, epic irc, tin, telnet, wget, naim, zgv, testdisk, smbclient, smbmount, ssh/sshd, rsync, udp-sender/receiver, lde, blesstivo, rtvpatch, chntpw, cmospwd, grub, grubconfig, smartctl, memtest86, captive-ntfs, ddrescue, dd_rescue, acpitool, dmidecode, hwinfo and lshw.
The software package also includes advanced DVD udf filesystem packet writing tools such as cdrwtool, mkudffs, and pktsetup. Some notable programs included in the package that are used for file system repairs are 'reiserfsck' and 'fsck.reiser4' for the repair and maintenance of a Linux reiserfs and reiser4 file system. The 'xfs_repair' program comes in handy when repairing a Linux xfs filesystem, whereas 'jfs_fsck' is used for checking and repairing a Linux jfs filesystem. The 'e2fsck' program comes in handy for checking and repairing a Linux ext2 or ext3 filesystem, and the 'ntfsresize' program is useful for non-destructively resizing Windows XP/2000/NT4 or Windows Server 2003 NTFS filesystems.
Lastly, 'parted' is a program integrated to create, destroy, resize (fat16/32, ext2/3, reiserfs v3.6), check, copy partitions and respective file systems. It's used to create additional space for new operating systems and reorganize disk usage, copy data between hard disks, and disk imaging. The partition image
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