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rcrsn51 · Posted: Fri 20 Sep 2013, 09:52 Post subject:

@watchdog: My only experience with casper-rw is with a partition, not a file. But the file may have specific ownership/permissions that changed when you copied it to your hard drive. That might cause it to fail.

watchdog · Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 429

These are my findings. It's not a permissions' problem. I think it's a bug (seeemingly already reported) of ubuntu. Ubuntu does not like a casper-rw file in hd. My hd is ext4 formatted. According to:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence

a loopback file as casper-rw can be created but I have found you have to copy it on a usb-stick as an alternative of saving in partition. The casper-rw file created by unetbootin is ext2 formatted inside and can be mounted by:

rcrsn51 · Updated 2014-01-15

ISObooter is an easy way to run Puppy and other Linuxes from USB. But if you only have a Windows machine and no optical drive to make a Puppy boot disc, how do you get started?

This little package lets you make an ISObooter flash drive from Windows. It only boots one Linux. But if you want to multi-boot, you can use the regular ISObooter once you have Puppy running. Some notes before you start:

a. You need a clean FAT32 formatted flash drive.
b. You need WinXP or newer.
c. Your BIOS must be able to boot off USB devices.

1. Copy the zip file isobooter-win.zip to a temporary location and unpack it.
2a. In XP, double-click on grubinst_gui.exe.
2b. In Win7, right-click and choose Run as Administator.
3. Click on Disk > Refresh
4. Select your USB drive from the drop-down list. You can probably identify it by its size. If you are not sure, STOP NOW.
5. Select Part List > Refresh > Whole disk (MBR)
6. Click Install
7. Copy the files grldr, menu.lst and isobooter onto the USB drive.
8. Copy a Linux ISO onto the USB drive.
9. Rename the ISO file as "linux.iso".
10. There should now be four files on the USB drive - grldr, menu.lst, isobooter and linux.iso.
11. Unmount the USB drive and reboot.

Mike7 · Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 107

Hi, Roc.

You may not remember me, but I was on this thread last March trying to use isobooter to install Puppeee 4.4 on a pendrive, unsuccessfully. I gave up, but eventually did get Puppeee 4.4 installed another way.

I'd still like to make isobooter work for me so I could try out other versions of Puppy, and in case some day I need to re-install Puppeee 4.4. I see that both the Windows and Linux versions of isobooter have been updated since March. Do you think they've changed enough so they might work for me now?

Sorry if this sounds like a silly question, but I don't have much time for experimenting, due to my medical issues.

Thanks once again for all your help.

Cheers!

Mike7

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 3613 Location: Earth

Hi @Rcrsn51 and everyone.

This is a very good product as it makes simple a boot process that merely requires adding an ISO to a USB and booting. It started as a Linux-USB solution and NOW, has been expanded to be a Windows-USB solution for initial setup and use. But, I have a question of ISObooter.

Question

Can this process be done using a DVD which embraces the ISO booting process?

Seems that with DVDs/Blu-Ray disc provides both the storage and options to offer an ISO boot process which initiates from these disc as well. But, I must assume that there is some known restrictions in doing so and am wondering what they are.;

Thanks in advance

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 2049 Location: Heart of Texas

isobooter ideas should work on bluray and I have been reviewing booters that can allow multisession additions. IE can add more iso files and update config txt AFTER FIRST BURN to make this very useful.
So far syslinux family can not read config txt past first session. So it is out.

Reviewing a grub only methods this week as a project to iso-fy the new full install only Quirky6s. I had done a reverse from full install in early days of puppy and Grub worked great. It did not care if it was a hard drive or a hard drive image file on a DVD.

Grub4Dos does not function as cleanly when used outside of an actual hardware layer.

Mike7 · Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 107

rcrsn51-

I started a post above with "Hi, Roc". I may have gotten your name confused with someone else's. If that's the case, I apologize.

I also apologize for not seeing through the Isobooter project in March. I really do have some serious chronic health issues that prevent me from paying attention to my computer all the time. But I am going to try again. I promise.

Cheers.

Mike