Xboot and problems booting from Composite Image

spud17

You s*ds!

Wish I hadn't read this thread. :mad:

Now that the Slitaz web server has performed faultlessly for all these months, - ignoring the power cut one Friday, btw, also been teaching myself about ssh, xming and puTTy. :cool:

Need a new project.

I'm just going to have to have a go with this Xboot, see if I can get the various rescue bits and pieces all on a flash drive.

What size drives are you using?

debitcardmayhem

spud17 wrote: »

You s*ds!

Wish I hadn't read this thread. :mad:

Now that the Slitaz web server has performed faultlessly for all these months, - ignoring the power cut one Friday, btw, also been teaching myself about ssh, xming and puTTy. :cool:

Need a new project.

I'm just going to have to have a go with this Xboot, see if I can get the various rescue bits and pieces all on a flash drive.

What size drives are you using?

A one inch one for evenings and weekends But a 16Gb for the rest of the time , it holds also of others like portable apps , my cv (20bytes) , music , and numerous other useless downloads

Edited: 4Gb is enough for most of what I have

spud17

Thanks, got a [STRIKE]8"[/STRIKE] 8GB one here, just begging to be used to its' limits. And not just weekends.

debitcardmayhem

Make sure it's Fat (your [STRIKE]stick[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]pen is[/STRIKE]USB drive is you doughnut:beer: )

GunJack

lol @ spud and DCM

I'm using a 2GB transcend stick for this project, but as I am only looking at the above-mentioned 3 ISOs, I might just squeeze it on a 1GB, will have to check on what size the avira rescuecd is. Will have to have a root round to see if I've got a half-gig one left, as I still want puppy on a stand-alone as well..

..and, as mentioned earlier, now I know it works, a rebuild with hiren's v12 instead of v15

Toxteth_OGrady

Give Yumi a try.

TOG

GunJack

cheers Tox, now I've got the bug (and the knack... @ DCM ) I might just have to give that a go

GunJack

AAAARRRGGGHHHH !!!!!!!! :mad:

I spoke too soon.....

..whilst puppy and avira boot and work fine, hiren's bootcd only partially loads...when firing up miniXP, no links/menu folder/progs to run/etc...
so in other words, not much use at all.....I just burned the ISO onto a cd to check, and that's fine, XP loads up with all the hiren's file structure and menus, can run the applications on there, so must be something within Xboot....

...HELP !!!

debitcardmayhem

GunJack wrote: »

AAAARRRGGGHHHH !!!!!!!! :mad:

I spoke too soon.....

..whilst puppy and avira boot and work fine, hiren's bootcd only partially loads...when firing up miniXP, no links/menu folder/progs to run/etc...
so in other words, not much use at all.....I just burned the ISO onto a cd to check, and that's fine, XP loads up with all the hiren's file structure and menus, can run the applications on there, so must be something within Xboot....

...HELP !!!

You rang :cool:, OK Gunny 1st thing is Hirens 12 has problems. I have 13 .
So d/l 13 please, pretty please. Then add to Xboot using grub4dos iso emulation. Then create the USB (don't put a loader on it not needed, you already have one and it will just create an entry syslinux.cfg ) I seem to remember that you will need to copy the HBCD directory from the Hirens.iso to the root of the USB too. I use Virtualcd or Archive Mounter from Linux. HTH
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GunJack

cheers DCM I used hiren's v15, used the emulation mode to add it, and tried with & without a bootloader. Couldn't find an active link to previous versions of hiren's, hence using v15. I'll have another root around, but id you have a good link to v13 (that we know works) I'll give that a bash

...shame really, as v15 looks quite good, apart from the "pseudo-bliss" miniXP desktop.....