Trinity Rescue Kit

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Trinity Rescue Kit
Company / developer Tom Kerremans
OS family Unix-like
Working state Current
Source model Open source
Latest stable release 3.4 build 372 / April 29, 2011 (2011-04-29)
Available language(s) English
Kernel type Linux
License GNU GPL license[1]
Official website http://trinityhome.org/trk

Trinity Rescue Kit (also known as TRK) is a free command-line Live CD Linux distribution created especially for rescuing Windows PCs.[2][3] It is aimed specifically at offline operations for Windows and Linux systems such as rescue, repair, password resets and disk cloning. Its virusscan encompasses five antivirus programs.[4]

Trinity Rescue Kit is bootable from a CD, USB media or a network using PXE. Documentation for TRK exists both on the website, as well as in the console by using the command "trkhelp -l -t". Trinity Rescue Kit omits the standard Linux manual command in order to preserve space. In addition, there are tools to migrate TRK from an ISO image to a bootable USB device and vice versa.

Trinity Rescue Kit has a graphical startup menu based on SYSLINUX and vesamenu32 which is used to select boot options, but the OS is otherwise command-line only.

History

Starting in 2001, after creating a bootable DOS-based CD of proprietary software for offline operations (named "The Vault"), Belgian developer, Tom Kerremans decided to create a free bootable Linux CD.[3]

The purpose would be to include free tools that could help rescue a Windows installation that was being problematic. Binaries and scripts from other distributions inspired the Trinity Rescue Kit. Sources included Mandriva 2005 and the Fedora Cores 3 and 4. The startup procedure and methods, and many scripts, are custom-made for Trinity Rescue Kit.[5]

Features

TRK 3.3 was based on Linux 2.6.26.

  • 6 consoles (accessed using alt+F1, etc.)
  • The ability to update itself (antivirus definitions/drivers) if burned onto a CD-RW
  • Data Recovery Tools
  • Clone Windows over a network
  • Antivirus Scanner
    • ClamAV
    • F-Prot
    • AVG Anti-Virus
    • BitDefender
    • Avast!
  • Reset Windows passwords
  • Read/Write to NTFS partitions through ntfs-3g
    • clonentfs allows copying of all used space on a drive
    • Better support for Vista in build 321
  • Edit partition layout
  • SSH Server
  • Samba server
    • Share all local drives on network as a user or a guest
  • Logical Volume Management
  • Proxy server support
  • Bridging Capabilities
    • Allows tcpdump when traffic passes other computers

See also

References

  1. ↑ trinityhome.org: Licensing. Updated July 20, 2010. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
  2. ↑ jack.schofield: The Guardian Technology: Ask Jack...Endless reboot, 28th June 2007
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Podnutz Episode 52: Trinity Rescue Kit
  4. ↑ Alison Diana Trinity Upgrades Linux Rescue Kit InformationWeek, 17 August 2010 11:09 AM
  5. ↑ Bart Verstricht. "What is Trinity Rescue Kit?". Trinityhome.org. Retrieved 2014-01-06. 

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