Xboot and problems booting from Composite Image

debitcardmayhem

spud17 wrote: »

Tonight's update.

Downloaded 528.

May have missed something, but couldn't see how to remove 520 within Xboot. So just reformatted partition, clean sheet, unlike my bed. :eek:

As before dragged/dropped GParted, SystemRescueCd, SliTaz and Puppy 5.2.8.

All work as intended. :T:beer:
Puppy did take about 20secs searching for 'Puppy files on disk' then 'looking in sub, sub folders', but eventually booted up.

I've installed Firefox, and also checked the access log on my thin client server using Ssh-gui secure telnet.

No dcm, I'm not going to learn the command line way at this time.:p

I'm flying up the rankings on Yandex or if you prefer Yandex .

Also this lot must love the site, they're always visiting, :cool:

http://linux.m2osw.com/zmeu-attack

G'night for now.

In red no you can't remove from Xboot , delete the files , then if you edit the syslinux.cfg file and remove yhe lines for the redundant/removed software.
In blue yes it's a bit slow, but once it has found them it is, well, ...slow:rotfl:

Now put portable-apps on the stick eg Putty/Filezilla/Tbird/Firefox and you are really good to go, so, why wait, go now :cool:

spud17

Cheers dcm,
I'm already familiar with Puppys habits, I've since tried it on another pc and it's better, I suspect it just likes having a pupsave file around.

I think 5.2.0 must have been a bit flaky. I seem to remember having trouble getting a 5.2.0 cd to run on something I was was wanting to find the spec of. (Excuse poor syntax).

Have already got those portable apps on my 'old' stick, plus Xming, which I'll probably move over to the 'new' one. I've kept a separate partition for the portables and my other 'toolkit' progs.
I also keep a few other .exes, e.g. Speccy, Mbam, just in case I go somewhere and there's a problem with slow/nil interwebnet.
Not unusual around here.
Now off to re-read about adding Hirens.:beer:

debitcardmayhem

Spud I forgot to add Truecrypt , but don't encrypt the whole stick (hee hee)

GunJack

spud17 wrote: »

I'm already familiar with Puppys habits, I've since tried it on another pc and it's better, I suspect it just likes having a pupsave file around.

once you've booted puppy from the stick first time, save the session back onto the usb you've just booted it from, and it'll load quicker next time



Now off to re-read about adding Hirens.:beer:

just add the HBCD folder from your hiren's cd to the usb you've built, and it will work.......

..which is incidentally what I didn't do first time, I copied the config file instead :mad:

debitcardmayhem

GunJack wrote: »

..which is incidentally what I didn't do first time, I copied the config file instead :mad:

Really .... Hey guys , check this one out, not put it on Xboot, but just stuck it on a small stick using unetbootin and haven't played yet but boy does it load quick (its only 64MB in its plus version)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/ , next project for this afternoon. Just ran it up in Virtualbox 9 secs to load

Edit: OK got it on Xboot now, it's another similar job to Hirens, you need to put the CDE directory (GJ <

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rmg1

Been reading this thread with interest as it looks like a way of booting a machine that has some major problems and trying to sort them out using various tools (AV, MBAM, etc.)
Does anyone have any guides (preferably idiot-proof) so that I can have a go at making my own boot stick/CD?

spud17

rmg1 wrote: »

Been reading this thread with interest as it looks like a way of booting a machine that has some major problems and trying to sort them out using various tools (AV, MBAM, etc.)
Does anyone have any guides (preferably idiot-proof) so that I can have a go at making my own boot stick/CD?

Don't see how you could use MBAM as it requires Windows to run, these are all standalone programs.

It's a way running a machine without booting into Windows. If you're familiar with a 'live' cd, you're on the way.;)

http://sites.google.com/site/shamurxboot/home is what we're using.

You need to have FAT32 formatted drive, and the bit I forgot, it has to be set as 'bootable'. The program is tiny and you do just drag/drop the .iso of choice into the box, pick the drive you are using for Xboot (if applicable) then click ok.

I suggest for simplicity/starters you just download Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 (we know it works), run Xboot, drag the .iso into the 'add' box and follow the simple instructions. Plug the drive into the PC make sure it will boot from 'usb', you'll get a simple interface, choose Linux>Puppy.

Apologies, but doing this in a rush, ask away if you have any queries, dcm and Gunjack are the masters.

debitcardmayhem

rmg1 wrote: »

Been reading this thread with interest as it looks like a way of booting a machine that has some major problems and trying to sort them out using various tools (AV, MBAM, etc.)
Does anyone have any guides (preferably idiot-proof) so that I can have a go at making my own boot stick/CD?

As spud quite rightly says, MBAM(and the likes of Hihjackthis, ccleaner) needs the Windows environment that may be compromised ie its registry etc, however it is possible to use Anit-virus scans from a stand-alone environment indeed many AV companies provide iso images that don't rely on Windows and it is possible to run them in theory using Xboot. As for an idiot's guide I am afraid that I can't help per se (:rotfl::rotfl: Since certain people can't read what I suggest :cool::p;):o and they know who I am taking the "P one fivefive" out of , just joking ![A-F,H,I,K-Z] ) The link spud posted is the only one I have worked with, but it is a start. There are other methods for starting from and systemrescuecd and ubcd and hiren's are fine examples , xboot is OK and flexible for sticking lots of things one a single stick as is yumi which TOG pointed out earlier in the thread. This thread is not about the dark arts of getting a machine up and running more like GJ,Spud and meself taking the mick out of each other, whilst learning a bit too, having said that it is proving to be a good basis for collecting tools which can help. My stick has also got W7 32/64bit versions of system repair which I created from my W7 machines plus acronis, gparted,hirens a few linuxes, plus truecrypt, and portable apps which do not have a boot environment but which help on running Windows/Linux machines.
HTH
apologies to my friends GJ/Spud

Edited: Also pendrivelinux is another place to have a look at

GunJack

rmg1 wrote: »

Been reading this thread with interest as it looks like a way of booting a machine that has some major problems and trying to sort them out using various tools (AV, MBAM, etc.)
Does anyone have any guides (preferably idiot-proof) so that I can have a go at making my own boot stick/CD?

just to echo most of what spud and dcm have said already, it's not so much just about "fixing" a machine that's broke (although it can be pretty darn useful for that) it's at least being able to fire up and use a machine that, for whatever reason, won't boot into windows, and for other maintenance which can't be done so well if booted from the hdd....

...and for learning, of course, and banter

debitcardmayhem

GunJack wrote: »

snipped.....

...and for learning, of course, and banter

Surely you mean Barter I will swap two of my insults for three of yours :D