Ubuntu Installation :: Cannot Download 10.04 Image Into LiveCD Filesystem?
Sep 30, 2010
Recently I've been struggling with an upgrade to Karmic Koala (see my Cannot Boot from Hard Disk) from Jaunty Jackalope. Despite a valiant effort to find and install grub2 I've decided instead to download and install Lucid Linx. However when I visit the download site on ubuntu.com it gives no options as to where I might save it. Since I'm currently running Karmic from a LiveCD the filesystem doesn't have enough room for the 700mg .iso, although I have plenty of room on the 40 gig HDD. How do I point the download towards my hdd rather than the LiveCD filesystem?
My old HDD died. I have 10.10 installed on a usb stick. This is a full installation not a LiveCD. I downloaded the live CD and Unetbootin.
Can I use unetbootin to create a bootable 'LiveCD' onto a partition of my new hard drive?
Without a CD drive, I can't think of any other way to get an installation onto my new HDD
EDIT - got ubuntu installed but had to do it at work, so i am still curious as how one would proceed with only a USB (full installation) and a blank HDD with no access to any other computers.
how to add packages to an existing Ubuntu ISO or LiveCD (Think like slipstreaming Windows Service Packs into Windows installation CDs, if that helps). I want to add things such as more games or the restricted extras plugins so that I don't have to go get them every time I install the OS on someone's computer, things like that. Not as important, but if it would be possible to remove packages
PS I'm not necessarily looking for a specific version, but I'm currently running 9.10 on one machine and 10.04 (soon to be 10.10) on another. A guide for any Ubuntu distro would be fine though. I'm just as interested in learning the theory of it as I am the actual execution.
I have a fedora 11 installation on my machine , with a customized partitioning of the 500GB sata HDD , I wanted to create a exact replica image on a USB stick , for future installations on other 500GB sata HDDs .. while only need to create a copy of the 5 GB (/boot + / ) while the remaining 400 GB + is a Data Logger partition which can be created by a script. I tried doing a rsync .. but have got stuck up with the bootable drive configs et all ..
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.
I've been out of the Linux loop for a little while, but a customer of mine wants a "No Virus) desktop environment, I have gone through the process of installing and configuring Ubuntu 10.10 to work with their client side software, but for the life of me, I can't remember if or how I can create an exact image of this file-system to install on all of the desktops.I would need to have all of the installed programs, Security Certificates, Display settings... basically, I need exactly what I have right now installed from the disc so that "IF" the customer needs to install the environment on new systems, I can just pop the disc in and run.
I have downloaded iso image of matlab provided by my school. As I mount the image using gmount, I saw number of files. One of the file name is 'install'. I imagine this is the file which will initiate the installation process, but don't know how to use it. Do I have to go to the mount folder in terminal and type sude install ?
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS in a dual boot environment with XP. Except that I have two hard drives: One with Ubuntu and XP and one with just XP. The MBR on the XP-only drive has an entry named "Linux" which points to the grub loader for the split drive. I tried to reinstall windows on its partition on the split drive, but the install process hung and I've never figured out how to make it finish. I didn't use that partition for this entire episode. Yesterday I booted into Ubuntu and tried to log in, but immediately after entering username and password I was presented with an error message (full screen, blue background, red "ok" button). I don't remember exactly what the wordage was but it had something to do with a hard drive error.
I thought I was experiencing hard drive failure, but I hit the reset button and successfully booted into the windows-only installation. I didn't think the problem was anything more than a random error. Today I tried to boot into Ubuntu, but immediately after the splash screen I was greeted with BusyBox v1..1..3 with an (initramfs) prompt. I restarted and tried Ubuntu again and immediately I encountered the grub> prompt (no grub bootloader, no splash screen). Confused about why the prompts had changed I decided to boot into Windows, but at the welcome screen an error dialog from lsass.exe informed me of an unrecoverable error in the registry: the semi-famous "registry could not read in, write out, or flush." Next I tried the live CD.
Using the live CD I could access the contents of both of my windows partitions, but not my Ubuntu partition. Navigating to "FileSystem" using the LiveCD only yields the directories created for the LiveCD session. I tried again to boot into windows and it worked, so I'm hoping the message from lsass.exe was just a random hiccup. Right now I'm pretty much only concerned with getting the Ubuntu partition backed up, and then performing a fresh install. Content from the windows installations is fully backed up. The fact that using a LiveCD gives me access to the windows partition on the split drive makes me certain that the drive has not physically died.
Using "fdisk -l" produces no output, and "dmesg" gives some errors at the end of the output: [310.832172] EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock [341.900881] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda5. [887.351098] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [899.495785] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [899.495795] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 [911.636348] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [911.636359] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 [1032.849498] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [1044.999986] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [1044.999996] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 [1057.130682] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [1057.130693] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 [1146.185858] attempt to access beyond end of device [1146.185872] sda2: rw=0, want=4, limit=2 [1146.185878] EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock My attempts to use the grub> prompt to reinstall grub return an error (error 15, I think?) when I try "find /boot/grub/stage1".
I got my parts and am looking to build it tomorrow, however I don't have an OS with me to test it. This is mostly for college, multimedia stuff, so I'm obviously going need Windows on it. I'm leaning towards Debian or a Debian derivative like Ubuntu, I used that back when it was trendy and found it pretty good, but I hear Debians the same but better.
I want to get Linux on it at some stage - is it easy to install Linux on the machine first then windows, or do I have to do it the other way around? I've never installed Linux FIRST. I want to assign a particularly partition to it and keep the free space for when I install Windoze on it.
How big is the basic Debian install and where's the best place to download it? I have a shitty connection here so I can't really download a DVD image.
I am trying to download debian onto my amd64 machine, but i found a list of 8 dvds. Can I perform a complete Debian 6 installation with the DVD-1 alone? why there are so many images with different DVD names?
120 GB HDD. All ext4. Wanted to partition it into 60 gig ntfs, and 60 gig ext4 for dual install. Booted up the LiveCD. Clicked on the partition to modify. Selected /windows as mount point. Change took place. Now, my disk shows up as 57 GB FAT (almost all of which is free) and 60 GB of unallocated space. Any way to recover it? I'm sue the data is in the 60 GB of unallocated space. While I have a back up of some of the data, I'm going to be losing quite a bit if I can't recover this...
I'm trying to install debian on a buffalo linksystem and the tutorial is created for a debian lenny installation but I cannot find a download mirror anywhere for anything except debian 6. point me to a download location for a debian 5 x32 cd-image?
my hardware configure is 1gb ram,partition of hdd is c:25gb,d:80gb,e:80gb,windows xp 32 bit ,p4 2.70ghz processorI have download fedora 13 two times from the Internet. First ----Fedora-13-i686-live in winrar (675mb) when I extract winrar Fedora-13-i686-liveAfter Then in the new folder of Fedora-13-i686-live (675mb) some new file & folder are display.This file and folder are- (EFI , isolinux , liveos) Folder & files are GPL.Second --- using the bit torrent--- I have download Fedora-13-i386-DVD winrar (3.05GB) & a file Fedora-13-i386-DVD-CHECKSUM In the winrar to be extract there is a new Fedora-13-i386-DVD(3.07GB) folder is display. In this folder some file & folder are display.
the folder are (EFI,IMAGES,ISOLINUX,PACKAGES,REPODATA) & files are(.discinfo 1kb,.treeinfo 2kb,gpl 18kb,media.repo 1kb,RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora 0kb,RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-13-primary 2kb,RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-13-SPARC 4kb,RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386 0kb,RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-sparc 0kb,RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-sparc64 0kb ,RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64 0kb,TRANS.TBL 4kb)So my simple question is to you that where is the .exe of the fedora-13 or the fedora-i386-dvd.ISO image file in both the Internet download files
Ext2, ext3, or ext4? I first used ext4 with Slackware, but when I tried my Puppy live CD the only partition I could mount was the Windows one. I started over and used ext2 and Puppy will mount it. I'm willing to start over and use ext 3 if it will also work with Puppy and there is an advantage to using ext3 over ext2. Puppy saw the ext4 partitions, but wouldn't mount them.
I followed the instructions here: [URL] and then here: [URL] and installed the necessary packages. But when I try building the minimal image as a test, I get lots of errors, as seen in the attached build log. There are lots of things that don't seem to work. Is this project at a state where it's not currently usable? Or do I have a problem with my system configuration? I was running at root.
[root@localhost test]# LANG=C livecd-creator --config=centos-livecd-minimal.ks --fslabel=CentOS-minimal Filesystem label=CentOS-minimal OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2)
I have a Ubuntu 9.10 LiveCD (and I plan to keep using it as just a LiveCD); this works fine.
Firefox works fine too, and installing a flash player plugin is all right.
The problem appears when I reboot and see that Firefox no longer has the flash plugin installed.
So I tried making a persistent image USB stick for this, added the persistent keyword at the end of the boot options, and Firefox still forgets that it can actually play ..... videos.
The persistent image USB seems to be doing something, at least browsing through it shows several folders, for instance /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin which constains a file libflashplayer.so
It's just that Firefox doesn't seem to care. What else should I do?
I'm looking for a way to create a live cd from the existing image. I'd like to include some sort of installer, I've found gui remaster utilities, but none for the shell only. I need to setup the image to automatically login, so the user could just pop in the cd and start it up without a monitor or keyboard.
I finished downloading of "openSUSE-11.1-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso" file. I downloaded it by Opera WB. Then using Nero I burned this file to CD. But there is a problem with boot. Please, make a support to this problem. Maybe file, which is in a site opensuse.org is damaged?
After the reboot of computer this text appears: ISOLINUX 3.63 0x49364136 Copyright (c) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin Unknown keyword in configuration file. Unknown keyword in configuration file. Unknown keyword in configuration file. Unknown keyword in configuration file. Unknown keyword in configuration file. Loading Invalid or corrupt kernel image. boot:
Im trying to build an initrd image for my livecd using cpio -o -H newc, but the livecd can't boot. If I create the initrd image using mkfs.ext2 then it works.
On a Linux CD/DVD, there are compressed filesystem images for the live version for KDE or Gnome for example, but they have no extension, but they are clearly an image file ( compressed filesystem images for the live version before installation ) !!
I was wondering, How do I mount these compressed filesystem images, after I copy the ISO content of the CD/DVD on my system .... I want to edit some files or packages and make some changes, like if I want to customize a live version of gnome for example ! ... ( I know you might be tempted to tell me to use KIWI etc to customize etc ..... ) ... but I want to be able to mount the compressed file system image, then edit it for reading and writing while it is in a subdirectory on its own ... i want to open it ! ... is there a way to do this ??? ... these type of files have no extension ...
i can open this compressed filesystem image then to edit for read & write ... before I roll it back again ..... If and when I succeed .... what should I watch out for ? ... will the same compressed file image but slightly modified work again ?
PS. that same question could be kind of translated or be extended like : how do I use unionfs/squashfs programs on the command line to mount these image files with no extension for read & write mode ???
I debootstrapped lenny to by machine. I compiled the latest kernel etc and setup all the necessary programs by chrooting. I want to now boot a PC using newly debootstrapped system. How do I do it?
I want to try to download an image of the earth with wget located at [URL] which is refreshed every 3 hours and set is as a wallpaper (for whom is interested details here). Wen I fetch the file with Code: wget -r -N [URL] the jpeg is only 37 bytes and of course too small and not readable.
Can I download a Linux iso image from a Windows mirror? I don't see any problems, but my IT guy tells me that it just can't happen because a Linux download server uses a different protocol. But, I could be wrong...
I tried to download some images from google using wget:where wget cbk0.google.com/cbk?output=tile&panoid=2dAJGQJisD1hxp_U0xlokA&zoom =5&x=0&y=0However, I get the following erros: