Slackware :: Creating A Bootable DVD To Automatically Restore?
Feb 4, 2010
I'll be away from home for the following weeks (and perhaps months). I want to use the Internet with confidence, so I have setup an old computer with SSH and I'll be tunneling to that (from a netbook).I haven't remote-managed a computer for such a long time and I want to be sure that even if I do a mistake remotely, I can bring the computer back to a good known state.The home computer will reside inside my aunt's house and she knows very few about computers.
I've been thinking about burning a bootable DVD containing a tarball of a freshly configured Slackware. If I mess up, I can phone my aunt and tell her to simply put the DVD inside the drive and press ctrl-alt-del. The DVD boots, un-tars (the fresh Slackware), ejects the CD-tray, waits for her to press Enter, closes the tray, and finaly reboots to my good old known fresh Slackware.
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Jun 9, 2010
creating a bootable floppy from a bootable floppy image on a NON Linux machine I am trying to install dsl (damnsmallLinux) on one of my old Compaq 2000 Deskpro machine having 256RAM and 2 GB hardisk. (which I hope to increase to 8 or 10 GB ...can I use a larger disk capacity??) I have downloaded the floppy bootable image from the website using a machine a fedora OS machine that does not have a floppy drive. I have even converted the image file to an iso file. I can copy this image file or iso file to the Compaq machine but how do I use it as a bootable floppy? OR how do I create a bootable floppy disk from this image?
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Oct 23, 2009
I have a cdrom (bootable) that I want to copy over to a usb stick, and have THAT boot the system (Adding other files to it before hand) I know it's easy, but how? I've already made a iso of the cdrom.
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Apr 3, 2010
I have slackware on a bootable flash drive, and the pc onto which I want to install slack won't boot from a flash drive. So how do I burn a bootable set of CDs from my flash drive?
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May 2, 2010
I want to install Windows on my netbook. In order to to so I need to create a bootable disk-on-key.How do I do that?
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Oct 15, 2009
I only have linux machines in my home right now and was wondering if it is possible to create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive from within linux using only a .ISO file. Is there some utility that can do that, or am I stuck without WoW until I can get to a windows machine and use that to make the disk? (^.o)
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Nov 22, 2009
how to get a working bootable USB boot disk for DOS using Fedora 12. I needed the dos boot disk to flash my motherboard BIOS as it did not support linux for updating the bios. Thought I'd put the steps involved to help other people who wanted to do something similar. The steps outlined here are for a Fedora 12 system. You should be able to extrapolate the minor changes that may be required for other linux distributions. All commands listed below to be typed in on a command prompt, logged in as root. Here goes...
1. Prerequisites:
syslinux
testdisk
freedos base cd (http://www.freedos.org/)
[code]....
Acknowledgments:
1. [URL] for enlightening me on the fact that testdisk could be used instead of install-mbr
2. [URL] upon which this howto is broadly based.
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Apr 23, 2010
I downloaded 64-bit fedora12 iso DVD image and created a DVD. When I tried to boot, the CD does not boot. I checked the documentation to see whether book.iso or any other file needs to be copied along with. My question is:
- What are the files I need to copy to a DVD for the DVD to boot up straight up from the DVD...?
- If not, is there another way to get this fresh installation done.
I have 32-bit Fedora 11 installed in a machine, but need 64-Fedora to do some testing, before going with RH Linux.
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Jul 30, 2010
I have to give this computer (currently running Ubuntu 10.4) back a friend who wants Windows 7 on it. I need to create a bootable windows 7 pendrive...
I've tried several ways to do several this, including the suggestions found here and here, but keep getting stuck on the reboot where it tells me the drive is not bootable. In GParted, the USB drive IS marked as bootable.
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Dec 13, 2010
I am operating Ubuntu 10.10 installed to disk on a desktop and trying to create a bootable USB of the same to install on my netbook. I am using the instructions found here but every time I try to create the bootable USB, it fails. I get various error messages, such as:
Code: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Code:
An uncaught exception was raised: [Errno 5] Input/output error or others. I think I've seen four or five others. Once I got 80% finished then it failed with a generic error stating that creating the bootable disk failed. I've tried formatting the USB drive as ext3, ext4, NTFS, and FAT, but I always get failures. I am writing from a physical CD, the same one I used to install the 10.10 that I am posting from.
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Jan 5, 2010
I am trying to create a bootable DVD disk of Fedora. I am having trouble in doing this. I want to format the Hard drive and create a new file system. I have downloaded the source cds for fedora12 AND fedorai386 downloads. I have been trying to create a DVD burn with the Fedora12.iso extracted and then burned to DVD. This does not work. I just want to be able to pop the DVD in and then start the install, and on any machine.
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Apr 1, 2010
I have installed Centos 5.4 and then on top of that i have been installing many softwares over the time ( like pbx system , web console , billing etc.) and now it has come to a quite stable stage. the problem is i have to move this installation to another machine with different config etc. even have to install it on multiple systems. the idea is to create a bootable linux iso of the current machine with all the softwares so i can simply put it in a different machine and make it install and run without much fuss. is creating a linux appliance the only solution ? or is there any way to backup the current machine in an iso format and then install it on another machine? also i would like to make this completely hardware independent.
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Jul 11, 2010
I am trying to install Linux (the distros I have attempted it with are Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu and Mint) on a USB drive and make it work like a removable hard drive, keeping programs and settings. I tried it manually at first, partitioning the drive with Fedora's "Disk Utility" and dd'ing a Fedora 13 iso over. I should note here that I have definitely configured the BIOS correctly, enabled booting from removable media and set it as the default with all other devices disabled, but that I have never actually booted from USB before with this motherboard. On bootup I got
Code:
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
I then tried it with Ubuntu 10 and Ubuntu's "usb-creator". This was apparently successful, but on bootup I got:
Code:
missing operating system
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
I downloaded UNetBootIn, but the application kept saying I needed "p7zip-full", which I couldn't find anywhere. I then got Fedora liveusb-creator, but whichever iso I give it I get this error:
Code:
Unable to find LiveOS on ISO I looked at the source code and it seems to be looking for a directory named LiveOS on the iso containing the files "squashfs.img" and "osmin.img" Here is the code (usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/liveusb/creator.py, line 575):
Code:
def extract_iso(self):
""" Extract self.iso to self.dest """
self.log.info(_("Extracting live image to USB device..."))
[code]...
I couldn't find much about what LiveOS actually means and why I need it to create a bootable USB, so if anyone could tell me more about this that would be great. Is this (the .img files) the only thing distinguishing a "Live" OS from a non-Live one? I looked in my Ubuntu live CD and there was no such directory, but it works perfectly well. In case it would make a difference, the stick is 8GB and branded duracell, not sure what manufacturer it is.
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Jan 14, 2011
I am trying to create a bootable USB stick in Windows to install Debian on my laptop. I have looked at the guide on the [URL] website, but it seems to assume you already have access to a Linux machine with the use of zcat and other extractors. Is there anyway to create a bootable Debian USB stick in Windows? By the way, I'm trying to simply get the USB stick to become bootable and then install the OS through the internet on my laptop. My laptop does not have an optical drive, so I have to do it this way.
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Jan 12, 2010
I have downloaded Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso. Now I want to create a bootable USB from the downloaded ISO file. I tried with the latest version of liveusb-creator 3.9.1. I am unable to do so. It took around 3 days to download the iso file and now I cant even use it.
ERROR MESSAGE::
Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso selected
Verifying filesystem...
Extracting live image to USB device...
Wrote to device at 1 MB/sec
Creating 100MB persistent overlay
LiveUSB creation failed!
Here is the screen shot....
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Apr 4, 2010
I would like to install Windows XP on my netbook after some annoying issues. I haven't been able to find any solutions to this problem on Linux based systems after hours and hours and hours of surfing the Google. A lot of people say 'well use the usb startup disk creator!' Don't say that in here. It doesn't work.I already wasted about 3 hours on that. Any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated! (I have a 16GB thumb drive and Windows XP sp2)
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Mar 27, 2011
I no longer have access to a Windows machine.
I have been trying for days now to successfully create a usb bootable Windows XP install, but without success.
So, is it possible ? If so, HOW ?
Tools used so far without success:
UNetbootin
And
Startup Disk Creator.
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Aug 21, 2011
I have an netbook, a small Asus Eee PC model 1001 PX running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It don't have an optical drive so I wish to make an bootable installation disk with an USB flash drive. I followed the guide on Ubuntus homepage [URL] How to make an USB drive). But it did not work. I have an standard 4 GB USB flash drive which is plugged in. I have formatted it to FAT. And it is now empty.I went to System > Administration -> opened 'Startup Disk Creator'.
I pushed in all the options. But then the system asked for a password. No worries, I thought. It must be my own. But it was not. So my problem is that I am missing a password in order to authorized the installation of Ubuntu 11.04 on the USB drive. what are A. the proper search phrase for it? and B.
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Jul 29, 2010
I am thinking of using flash drives to boot linux image files instead of iso files. I remember reading in the past that booting off USB flash drives were sometimes problematic -- and I don't know if they're still are. I want to know from your personal experience what type and brand of flash drive has work for you in creating a bootable flash image.
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Nov 29, 2010
I've read all the documentation on installing Debian via CD, USB, or HD.I need to install Debian on a embedded system using only compact flash.This is similar to a HD installation, but I don't have any version of Linux installed to format.Is there someway of creating a bootable CF image from a Windows system?
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Aug 5, 2010
I wish to create a bootable disk for my existing grub legacy. I do not have a floppy drive. Could this be done on a CD-RW or flash drive?
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Oct 4, 2010
let me know the process to create Windows 2008 NTFS bootable partition from Linux?
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Jan 25, 2010
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Sep 2, 2010
I have a system built and running in exactly the basic configuration I want, with my recompiled kernel, extra packages, special drivers, everything works, life is good. What I want to do is take this exact setup and create an image I can copy onto a bootable USB stick. Is there a way to essentially take the contents of my hard drive and copy that onto a USB stick and then boot directly from that? The use case behind this is that I am building an embedded system of which I may have hundreds of boxes with identical hardware and software configurations. Instead of hard drives, I am going to use USB sticks for cost efficiency and maintenance. My idea is that when it's time to upgrade, I could just image a hundred new sticks and go out and swap them.
My issue is that a standard LiveCD install gets me maybe 25% of the way to a finished system. I need to recompile the kernel for realtime support with my CPU, add some fidgety drivers for some specific hardware, and install a whole bunch of additional packages. I suppose I could create a makefile(s) to replicate all the manual steps of the buildout but that seems like a lot of unnecessary complexity IF I can just image that running system as it is.
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Apr 23, 2011
How can I create a system restore point in Ubuntu, and when I do so am I able to restore to a point before installing Ubuntu?
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Jun 17, 2011
I'd like to create a boot floppy or CD to restore an image from a harddisk over the network, and it should work possibly automatically.
A normal, non-IT user should be able to do it in our branch abroad.
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Nov 11, 2010
I had problems with my old Ubuntu version,so I decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10. As I wanted to keep my old files I didn't choose the erase the hard disk and install option so the installation system created automatically another partition.
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May 12, 2011
I need a program that automaticly runs this command in the terminal when I use it:
sudo modprobe nvidia_g210m_acpi
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Apr 27, 2010
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My problem is the following: When someone create a folder, the folder permissions are automatically set with:
(let's take my username: Yann)
Owner: Yann
Group: Yann
Clearly that's wrong.. I want the Group to be auto set has "users" so everyone can access the folders on that share. Anyone know how to change this ? chmod and chown is getting a bit boring
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