Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Need a replacement for System Rescue CD as an environment for running ddrescue on Windows PC

[Christian Franke]

Shahrukh Merchant wrote:
> Hello, I have successfully used System Rescue CD as my go-to 
> environment for running ddrescue. Unfortunately, System Rescue CD is 
> no longer being maintained (ddrescue there is stuck at 1.21r1), and I 
> really would like to use the latest version of ddrescue (among other 
> reasons, one of my requested changes to ddrescue was kindly 
> incorporated by Antonio in 1.23).
>
> Is there another easy-to-create (e.g., ISO image directly available) 
> live Unix CD that has the basics I need to run ddrescue and keeps 
> ddrescue better updated? My workflow only uses:
>     lsblk (to determine device IDs)
>     ntfs-3g (to mount Windows partition/drive)
>     ddrescue
> (and of course basic Unix commands like ls, cd, etc.). I do not use 
> the other "rescue" features of System Rescue CD, not in this workflow 
> at any rate.

ALT Linux usually updates packages quickly and provides "Rescue" images 
with weekly auto builds:
https://en.altlinux.org/Rescue
http://nightly.altlinux.org/sisyphus/snapshots/

The latest "tested" version provides kernel 4.19.10, ddrescue 1.23 and 
ntfs-3g 2017.3.23:
http://nightly.altlinux.org/sisyphus/tested/

Regards,
Christian