Hretsam
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Has anyone else noticed Windows Installs (I only tried XP though) going *extremely* slowly?
yeah, but that is cause its from a USB, a DVD is faster...
maby a ESATA drive will help
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Suggestion for II:
Cover Window installs. I would really like to see how to take my legally purchased XP CD and use the ISO I created to install, so I do not have to carry a separate thumb drive. This was discussed and perhaps covered in this forum but a video tutorial with clarification would be awesome.
windows on your USB is not so hard,
you need to have the Grub4dos version that can boot iso's
next use MagicISO to rip the ISO from the CD
- File > Open CD/DVD Driver and select your CD/DVD drive
- File > Save as > winxp.iso (you can name it whatever you like, i use winxp.iso now)
- select destination and you have your winxp.iso
next put the winxp.iso in your USB root folder
next put the code below in your menu.list
and boot whit GRUB into windows...
title Windows XP (32b) map (hd0,0)/winxp.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32)
For the most versions of windows you need a serial, you can put it on a piece of paper you put it in your menu.
below is the code i use
it wont boot, and you have to select it and press "E" to view, but it is a handy way to keep you serials together without running around with a list of serials.
(you can put any test here you want)
title Serials (no-boot) map Windows 7 64b XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX map Windows 7 32b XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX map Windows XP 32b XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX kernel boot
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A while back i posted that I got partitions to work with this but i ran into problems and just figured out how to actually get it to work. I thought I would post a tutorial for people who wanted to do the same thing. The reason I did all of this is I wanted to be able to use my 8 GB drive for everyday files and also with the multipass.
Here is what I did.
First I did the whole PE2USB and Grub stuff without any partitions. (If you have partitions running PE2USB will delete them anyways.) So now my whole 8 GB flash drive was bootable. Now I needed to make another partition for my files and this is where it got tricky. Windows only sees the first partition and currently that was the boot partition so just shrinking the boot partition and creating a new one wouldn't work. (Note: I used GParted in Ubuntu to do all of the partitioning but I assume these steps would work in any other program.) What I ended up doing to get around the windows first partition problem is this. First I set up my usb with all of the different tools I wanted on it. This was so I could do all the work in windows and so that I knew how much space the boot partition needed. Once I had the multipass done with all the tools I wanted I restarted my machine and booted into Ubuntu. In Ubuntu I opened up GParted and changed the devices so I could see the flash drive. The first thing I did was shrink down the current partition to fit the multipass data I already had on there. ( I left an extra 100 MB on that partition just to be safe.) Then I copied the multipass partition and pasted it onto the same flash drive all the way to the right. Then i right clicked on the new partition and edited the flags. I put the boot flag and the hidden flag on this new partition. (I used the hidden flag because I have a mac and this hides the partition) I then edited the flags of the old partition and removed the boot flag. Then I changed the labels of the partitions. I called the original one "Files" and the new one "Boot". Then i made the original partition(Files) big enough to fill the rest of the empty space. I then mounted the old partition(Files) and deleted everything.
That is all you have to do! Now the Files partition will be viewable in windows and mac but the Boot one will not be. You can still boot from this drive and everything works fine!
One draw back to this is that you have to use Ubuntu to edit the Boot partition. Ubuntu ignores the Hidden flag that I used earlier so both partitions appear automatically. Also if you want to add anything to the Boot partition you have to resize both partitions.
Hope this helps out somebody and that everybody can understand it! (I'm not that good at making tutorials!) Let me know if anything needs clarifying and I will try and help.
Hmm, i like the idea, but i aint gonna use it, cause if you want to change something in your boot partition to a new version you first have to go into ubuntu (which is on my USB) and then change the thing.
somehow i think its easy if you just make a map into your drive called "files"...?
but hey, thats me...
for the rest good tutorial....
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Thanks,
That would be Darren's method wouldn't it and I have already renamed it to "konboot-1.1.img".
I went through the entry line by line in the grub prompt and the first line is what's throwing a "bad device" error.
I'll try again with an even simpler name I guess.
it is darren's method, good luck by the way.
also a note
the method works also with DBAN, maby also other floppy images?
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Just a thought...
Grub errors from the people who are having grub problems might be useful.
ie i keep getting "bad device string" errors trying to boot from isos.
As per the above, I need some help understanding what I'm doing wrong with some of these entries
particularly the booting direct from isos.
here is my menu.lst
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here is my dir stucture
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I tried to make it as small as possible so there is a lot of stuff missing.
I have konboot like this, try renaming the iso's to something easy..
title Kon-Boot map --mem /konboot.img (fd0) map --hook chainloader (fd0)+1 map (hd1) (hd0) map --hook rootnoverify (fd0)
I've read most of this thread and didn't see anything mentioned about U3? Forgive me if I missed it somewhere. Are you guys using U3 drives with the standard U3 partition? I have a SanDisk Cruzer 8GB with the standard U3 partition I haven't deleted or modified it yet.I copied the menu.ls file from the show notes and I have just about all the files on the drive except for the BackTrack files.
When I boot off the drive It says (Try (hd0,0) FAT32:) for about 5 seconds then it says something else so fast I can't read it then just hangs with a flashing cursor. I posted earlier in the thread somewhere about an idea I had only I don't think I worded it that well.
After 1 has a U3 loaded with their choice of tools couldn't they image that drive creating an .iso and then flash another drive with the ISO and have a duplicate?
You must disable the CD drive of the U3, cause it wont let you boot into GRUB..
i have deleted my U3 Menu...
i dunno if it works when you have the menu.. i am going to try that now, stay tuned ;)
EDIT: Well, i doesn't work, uninstall you launchpad if you want to use it as a multipass
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uptil now i havent been able to boot isos
i am using grub4dos 4.4 with fat16 and also tried using (fat32) - which one is better for multiboot??
i am able to BT4,HBCD,Konboot ,acronis hangs booting acronis media
i am not able to boot iso's
title Acronis map --mem /Acronis.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) title Acronis media find --set-root /acronis10.iso map /acronis10.iso (hd32) map --hook root (hd32) chainloader (hd32) title Super Grub Disk map --mem (pd)/sgd.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32)
they both work fine, but with fat32 you wont get "warnings" about the filesize..
about the acronis iso, it works here..
are you sure its on your drive on the root with exact the same filename?
i have this, and it works fine here
title Acronis map --mem /acronis.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32)
try with your Acronis media boot to select the kernel? otherwise i dont know.
play with the boot line's
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... can someone tell me what i need to do to the iso's ... what i should call stuff... and what should my menu.lst have...
just rename the iso's to something easy like
windows 7 64 bits i call win764.iso
I have been waiting for this for a very long time and this will be a life saver (business saver) once everything is said and done.I bought a 16Gb USB for $20 (I can get more) and this is what I have on it so far and what I'd like to add to it if someone could help.
What I'd like to add:
Windows 7 (OEM waiting till Aug. 6th for release)
Windows Vista SP2
Windows XP Home/Pro SP3
AntiVirus (of some sort)
SS&D
CCleaner
Some sort of Password changer/bypass since kon-boot does not always work
OOffice not sure if it can be installed from DOS
Assorted programs for new Computers DVD/AntiVirus
I'm guessing the windows are going to be as simple as Slipstreaming making the .iso and setting it up as such
title Windows 'x' (64b)
map (hd0,0)/(win_name).iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)
windows versions are easy, just make the iso and put it on your drive,
openoffice cant be installed from dos, as far is i know it needs a OS,
an program same as kon-boot is NTpasswd check this thread how to install, as for an anti-virus Avast got the Bart-Cd a bootable Anti-Virus, cost $40 i thought...
2. I may be blind, but i really cannot find the Memtest.img, DBAN.img or freedos.img. Can anyone give me a direct link, or host them? Thanks.Memtest i dunno, never used it...
as for freedos just download the .iso, and use this command and it should work...:
(works fine here)
title Freedos map (hd0,0)/freedos.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32)
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Does that work? I read that Linux and Windows NT-based OS's like Windows XP, Vista and 7 cannot see the mounted ISO, and Windows PE 3.0 (what Windows 7 Setup runs on) is NT-based.
it works here, i starts just like the CD, just a bit slower...
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4. Oh btw. Is there a way to put Win7 setup files on the key, and make "install windows 7" one of the choices?
Tried just starting the iso, that didnt work.
Thanks
Adding an xp install cd to the multipass would make life so much easier, but so far I haven't had any luck getting it to work. Does anyone know how to get it to work?No, read this:Solution: multi-partition the drive and dump the Windows discs to each individual partition. Chainload setupldr.bin from the appropriate partition for XP or earlier, or bootmgr for Windows Vista/W7.
if you just dump the windows cd .iso on your drive and use the chainloader command it should work. (it works fine here)
the code:
title Windows 7 (64b) map (hd0,0)/win764.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32)
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I too have been waiting for this for quite sometime. Just a thought, wondering if possible to create 1 USB drive full of tools then create an image of that drive and extract the image to a second drive to create a multipass.
Also has anyone tried converting .iso to .img? Am just now trying to get mine set up.
Thanks to the Hak5 crew and Frank Castle this tool will come in great use on a daily basis for me:)
what do you mean?
that you have 2 usb drives, with both the same programs?
thats not so hard, just copy paste...?
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@roonie 02 Aug 2009 13:14:27
are you sure you put something in your menu.lst?
are you sure its called menu.lst? (also with capitals?)
your sure your USB is bootable?
edit: Do you have copied the grldr from grub4dos 0.4.4?
If is that possible to boot all these isoes with chainloader option?some can, all windows versions work with the chainloader, also freedos works here..
Bart's PE gets stuck here, but thats because i used a wrong windows version
somewhere in this thread is a way to boot ubuntu as a iso...
so give it a try
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Please read the full thread, you cant have the casper folder in a subfolder, it wont work. It's expected in the root of the drive.
I'm looking through the initrd script for clues, and looking for a kernel switch that would allow for a redirection of the casper folder, but I dont think it exists.
yeah, you're right it works now...
here is the code for people who have trouble... Just extract the iso in the root of your USB key.. insert the code below in your menu.lst and delete the autorun file, now it should work...
Tested with both 8.10 and 9.10 on a fat16 and fat32 usb drive. (both work)
title Ubuntu 9.10 root (hd0,0) kernel /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw quiet splash initrd /casper/initrd.gz
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i cant get ubuntu up and running..? also BartPE is giving me some trouble...
can anyone help?
here is my menu.lst
splashimage /splashscreen.xpm.gz timeout 120 title BackTrack 4 BETA root (hd0,0) kernel /bootbt4/vmlinuz vga=0x317 ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet initrd=/bootbt4/initrd.gz boot title Bart's PE (Win XP) (BSOD?) map (hd0,0)/bartpe.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) title DBAN map --mem /dban.img (fd0) map --hook chainloader (fd0)+1 map (hd1) (hd0) map --hook rootnoverify (fd0) title Freedos map (hd0,0)/freedos.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) title Kon-Boot map --mem /konboot.img (fd0) map --hook chainloader (fd0)+1 map (hd1) (hd0) map --hook rootnoverify (fd0) title Ubuntu 9.10 (Werkt niet) root (hd0,0) kernel /ubuntu910/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw quiet splash initrd /ubuntu910/casper/initrd.gz title Windows XP Home (32b) map (hd0,0)/winxphome.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) title Windows Vista (64b) map (hd0,0)/winvista.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) title Windows 7 (32b) map (hd0,0)/win732.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) title Windows 7 (64b) map (hd0,0)/win764.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) title kernel initrd title Reboot reboot
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for the people who want it, this is my USB
menu.lst
directory stucture