Downloading

SystemRescueCd is provided as an ISO image file. This ISO has to be burned and will produce a bootable CDRom. It means SystemRescueCd is not software that can be installed over an existing operating system.

You can download the ISO image file with your favorite browser. Sometimes, the file is shown in the navigator's main window instead of being downloaded. If you have problems, please, download the file with wget. Wget is often installed by default under Linux, and a Windows version is available (search for wget.exe with google). Downloading with wget is easy: just type "wget <address-of-the-iso-file>".

Once the file is downloaded, you can check that there was no error, with md5sum. Run md5sum on the iso file, and compare with the MD5 number that is given on the website. If this is the same number, the file has no errors.