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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Fri 20 Sep 2013, 09:52 Post subject:
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@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.
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watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 1558 Location: Italy
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Posted: Sat 21 Sep 2013, 01:25 Post subject:
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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:
Code: | mkdir /mnt/casper-rw
mount -o loop /path-to/casper-rw /mnt/casper-rw |
You can copy as you want the casper-rw file of your install but you have to put it in a usb-stick to get recognized. I used a fat32 formatted usb-stick.
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Tue 14 Jan 2014, 23:35 Post subject:
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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.
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Mike7

Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 391
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Posted: Sun 02 Feb 2014, 02:39 Post subject:
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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
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth
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Posted: Mon 03 Feb 2014, 12:30 Post subject:
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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
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Ted Dog

Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 4013 Location: Heart of Texas
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Posted: Mon 03 Feb 2014, 12:58 Post subject:
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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.
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Mike7

Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 391
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Posted: Mon 03 Feb 2014, 21:25 Post subject:
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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
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neerajkolte

Joined: 10 Feb 2014 Posts: 517 Location: Pune, India.
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Posted: Sun 25 May 2014, 06:48 Post subject:
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Looks good.
I will try that.
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Sun 25 May 2014, 06:56 Post subject:
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neerajkolte wrote: | Looks good. I will try that. |
With all due respect, instead of posting a message about what you plan to do, try it first and post a message about how it worked.
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neerajkolte

Joined: 10 Feb 2014 Posts: 517 Location: Pune, India.
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Posted: Mon 26 May 2014, 09:32 Post subject:
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rcrsn51 wrote: | With all due respect, instead of posting a message about what you plan to do, try it first and post a message about how it worked. | Sorry if I have offended you. I currently don't have usb drive laying around. So I put that message so I could easily find the post later by clicking "view your posts" (Kind of bookmarking it, as I tend to forget sometimes).
I have only one 1gb usb drive that I have made multi ISO boot using Easy2boot.
I will try your tool and report back.
Thanks.
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neerajkolte

Joined: 10 Feb 2014 Posts: 517 Location: Pune, India.
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Posted: Tue 27 May 2014, 23:03 Post subject:
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Hi rcrsn51,
I didn't get my hand on spare USB stick. So I used Virtual method. (Thanks @gcmartin for suggesting that)
I created 8Gb virtual disk and booted as Fatdog guest in Fatdog host using KVM-Qemu.
Formatted Virtual disk to Fat32 gave Boot flag to it.
Copied all my ISOs to it.
Namely Ubuntu 13.10 64 bit, Mint 17 rc 64bit, Compizpup, Lxpup, Debiandog, Fatdog64, Lighthouse64, Precise 5.7.1, Puppy Arcade, Slacko64.
Ran isobooter script.
Then shutdown my Guest Fatdog. And used that Virtualdisk to boot in Qemu.
Every ISO boots well.
I forgot to add Win7 iso, I will also try that next.
Thanks
- Neeraj
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don570

Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4985 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Mon 18 Aug 2014, 14:54 Post subject:
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There's a link in the first post that doesn't work
grub-1.98-i486.pet
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Mon 18 Aug 2014, 15:12 Post subject:
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don570 wrote: | There's a link in the first post that doesn't work. |
Thanks. Luckily, I still had a copy and uploaded it to datafilehost.com.
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don570

Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4985 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Thu 21 Aug 2014, 12:58 Post subject:
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The Ubuntu Trusty Tahr ISO won't run properly on a 500MB machine.
Just too slow but on a 1.5 GB machine , it was fast.
All I had to do was make a Fat32 partition that had the boot flag.
EDIT: boot flag doesn't need to be set since grub4dos finds the partition
Drag ubuntu.iso to this partition
Add lines to menu.lst
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title Ubuntu 14.4 Desktop ISO
find --set-root /ubuntu.iso
map /ubuntu.iso (0xff)
map --hook
root (0xff)
kernel /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/ubuntu.iso noeject noprompt splash --
initrd /casper/initrd.lz
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Then boot up.
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johnywhy

Joined: 20 Aug 2011 Posts: 721
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Posted: Sun 05 Apr 2015, 14:57 Post subject:
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hi, rcrsn51
your steps say to run isobooter twice, before and after adding the iso's.
Is that still necessary? i've noticed that with some puppies at least, it works running it just once (after adding iso).
thx!
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