D1g1ta1

September 20, 2011

I was curious if anyone has gotten any of these to boot from grub4dos?

Ive tried GhostBSD which has a gnome interface and the ability to install from said distro but im running into a problem with the vfs emulation.

Has anyone else gotten another BSD related distro to boot successfully from grub4dos? If so please post the menu.lst entry in a reply.

Thanks (:

September 13, 2011

Thank you very much.

You're welcome. I actually added this to my liveUSB as well. (:

September 11, 2011

I have changed these entry's to the new ISO but still no luck at all it's very odd.

The entry you posted earlier:

menuentry "Ubuntu Live 9.10 32bit" {
 loopback loop /boot/iso/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso
 linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/boot/iso/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso noeject noprompt --
 initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}

try adding

file=/preseed/ubuntu.seed

before the

boot=casper

And see if that works..

The changed entry should look like:

menuentry "Ubuntu LiveDVD 11.04 32bit" {
 loopback loop /boot/iso/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso
 linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/boot/iso/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso quiet splash locale=en.UTF-8 --
 initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}

You should also have the ubuntu desktop iso in /boot/iso that being ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso ..

You should really read http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?showtopic=14105 and http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?showtopic=14179 .

You arent going to learn by people chewing your food for you...

September 11, 2011

I did but this is not what I'm looking for. Doesn't say anything how to set it up for grub4dos and how to set up an usb to have multipass with esxi. Maybe it's me and I don't get. Maybe you can help. Thanks.

Really? The script he setup makes it extremely easy.

It strips out the crap from VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.0.0-469512.x86_64.iso and VMware-VMvisor-InstallerCD-3.5.0_Update_5-207095.i386.iso

and creates an iso called: moa-esxi-rescue-cd.iso

There is a app called imgdisk which i use. it mounts isos on the fly and allows for modification of said ISO (on the fly) if need be.

Link here: ImgDisk

Why did i bring this up? Well once you have created the iso (moa-esxi-rescue-cd.iso) from the script in make-moa-esxi-rescue-cd.zip you can mount it with ImDisk. Right clicking on the iso in the file manager and selecting "Mount as ImDisk Virtual Disk" it will pop up a dialog box just click ok as the default settings will work fine.

Once you mount it a drive will appear called MOA-ESXI-RESCUE. in that virtual CD you will notice two files esxi35-live.iso and esxi50-live.iso and a grub for dos menu.lst which gives you an idea how you are going to set this up on your USB...

this is the entries on the menu.lst..

title run ESXi 5.0 from CD

 find --set-root --ignore-floppies /esxi50-live.iso
 map /esxi50-live.iso (hd32)
 map --hook
 chainloader (hd32)

title run ESXi 3.5 from CD

 find --set-root --ignore-floppies /esxi35-live.iso
 map  /esxi35-live.iso (hd32)
 map --hook
 chainloader (hd32)

So all i did was copy the two isos from that virtual drive to the directory that holds my isos on my usb drive and changed the entries on my menu.lst to:

title run ESXi 5.0 from CD\nnote the root password is: sanbarrow

 find --set-root --ignore-floppies /system/images/esxi50-live.iso
 map /system/images/esxi50-live.iso (hd32)
 map --hook
 chainloader (hd32)

title run ESXi 3.5 from CD\nnote the root password is: sanbarrow

 find --set-root --ignore-floppies /system/images/esxi35-live.iso
 map  /system/images/esxi35-live.iso (hd32)
 map --hook
 chainloader (hd32)

I was able to boot both of these with no issues. Any issues with that script you are going to have to post on that forum and not here.. I also looked through the iso VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.0.0-469512.x86_64.iso and its a total clusterfuck (All these module loads...) so i think this is why the guy from that forum post figured out a more elegant / easy way to get this running..

September 10, 2011

Dont you mean 11.04? From the entries it looks like its pointing to the old iso:

/boot/iso/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso

Have you changed those entries to reflect the name of the new iso?

Thanks, Well my original setup for booting ubuntu from ISO was but when I just swap the ISO to the 10.04 ISO it will not boot.
menuentry "Ubuntu Live 9.10 32bit" {
 loopback loop /boot/iso/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso
 linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/boot/iso/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso noeject noprompt --
 initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}

September 10, 2011

I did register. I was hoping that somebody already managed to put this on a multipass usb.

Thank you for your help.

Did you actually check http://communities.vmware.com/thread/327126 ?

September 9, 2011

Thank you D1g1ta1. I've sorted the problem with the image. Apparently Gimp in windows doesn't save a compatibil version of xpm with Grub. I had to use ImageMagick and convert the files from bmp to xpm.

Cool.

It's esxi 5.0.0, the free version. I'm a novice in this "department" so please be more understanding. :)

It requires you to register.. f that s ...

You may want to check the link here since it looks like someone has a working boot for esxi:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/327126

September 9, 2011

Does anybody know how to set up the iso image on the multipass usb stick?

I've managed to put Memtest86+, Ubuntu 11.4, Kaspersky Rescue disk and Kon-boot.

Which live CD is this from? If you can provide a link i can poke around while someone else replies.

Also provide what bootloader you are using.

Also I have problems adding the usb picture. I did exactly the steps from the episode but it doesn't work. Set it up 640X480, 14 colors, save it as xpm, gzip it and enter it to the menu (splashimage ...). Any ideas?

Thank you.

Easiest way to get this done is using imagemagick. If you are using windows you will need to grab the binary from here:

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows

Depending on your unix distro its as easy as emerge/yum/apt-get im assuming you're using windoze so the above will be fine.

If you plan on doing any modifications to a image do so and save as a jpg/png or whatever.. I generally do it this way since that's the final image and its the second to the last step before the conversion.

last you would either drop to a shell or cmdprompt and run

convert whateveryoucalledyourimage.jpg -resize 640x480 -colors 14 -depth 8 imagenameyouwant.xpm.gz

Copy the xpm.gz'd image to wherever you store your images on the usb and make sure that location is reflected in the bootloader. In my case im using grub4dos so this is a example of my root menu.lst

splashimage (hd0,0)/system/wall/tasty.brisket.xpm.gz

September 9, 2011

decided to update my Ubuntu on my Grub2 USB but no matter what I try I cannot seem to get the ISO to boot.

Any help that can be given is appreciated.

Can you elaborate on your setup since Grub2 isnt the bootloader initially used in the Multi-pass

Elaboration as in starting with the conf file you used to boot the iso from grub2. Your posting was vague since it doesnt provide any information on your original installation and your expecting people who read this post to read your mind :)

I figured id post with something to get the ball rolling since i know how annoying it is to not get replies on something thats obviously stumping you.

What i can do is include my entry for grub4dos that works fine for me..

title Ubuntu Desktop\nv11.04 Desktop Install LiveCD Disk\nhttp://www.ubuntu.com/support\nThis will map to memory so will take a bit to load
map --mem /sisstem/segami/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso (0xff)
map --hook
root (0xff)
kernel /casper/vmlinuz file=/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/sisstem/segami/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso quiet splash locale=en.UTF-8
initrd /casper/initrd.lz 
boot

Hope this helps..

D|g|ta|

September 4, 2011

My Laptops running Gentoo but i wanted to run pentoo and the latest gentoo live DVD.

Im sure there are more elaborate ways of getting this done but this one does the trick for me..

If you are working with a couple other distros you might want to make a directory for staging or whatever..

First grab the initramfs file usually in the boot directory or the isolinux directory of the distro. For gentoo releases ive only see it named gentoo.igz or gentoo64.igz..

copy it to your staging area..

rename the gentoo.igz to gentoo.gz..

uncompress the file..

gzip -d gentoo.gz

unpack..

cpio -i < gentoo.gz

example:

mindfuck staging # ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root 4096 Sep  3 11:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 108 root root 4096 Sep  2 15:57 ..
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4096 Sep  2 15:33 gentoo.11.gentoo.igz
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4096 Aug 30 11:31 mindfuck
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 4096 Sep  2 18:31 pentoo
mindfuck staging # pwd
/root/staging
mindfuck staging #

Ill use pentoo as an example:

mindfuck staging # cd pentoo/
mindfuck pentoo # ls -l
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 dev
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 etc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17708 Sep  2 18:31 init
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     3 Sep  2 18:31 lib64 -&gt; lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     4 Sep  2 18:31 linuxrc -&gt; init
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 proc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 sys
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 temp
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 usr
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 var
mindfuck pentoo #

At first i thought the script i needed was init but it ended up being initrd.scripts in etc:

mindfuck etc # ls -la
total 52
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    97 Sep  2 18:31 fstab
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1796 Sep  2 18:31 initrd.defaults
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 29244 Sep  2 18:32 initrd.scripts
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Sep  2 18:31 modules
mindfuck etc #

This is the entry i changed to reflect the file gentoo looks for when you set the "cdrom" flag in the kernel boot on grub4dos.. :

bootstrapCD() {     
        local DEVICES=`devicelist`
        # The device was specified on the command line, so there's no need to scan
        # a bunch of extra devices  
        [ -n "${CDROOT_DEV}" ] &amp;&amp; DEVICES="${CDROOT_DEV}"

        findmediamount "cdrom" "${SUBDIR}/pentoo" "REAL_ROOT" "${NEW_ROOT}" ${DEVICES}
}

You will notice the pentoo entry there.. Just rename the livecd file to whatever you want and make sure its placed in that entry..

save, then back out to where init is (/root/staging/pentoo for this example)

Now we need to repack the file:

find . | cpio -H newc -o &gt; ../gentoo.cpio
cd ..
gzip -9 gentoo.cpio -c &gt; gentoo.igz

Copy it back to where you grabbed it from. For pentoo it was in isolinux copy the livecd file to / and rename it to what you set it to in initrd.scripts

As i said ive got pentoo and the latest live dvd running on my usb boot..

Hope this helps someone who enjoys gentoo as much as i do..

August 21, 2011

With all due respect the episode only showed how to get it up and running pointing here to get more information here.

I would say stick with grub4dos as this has been the easiest for me and i didnt want to mess with syslinux.

Ive had to search out the information which is probably what you should do. Having someone else chew your food for you is fine if you just want something up quickly and you dont plan on fixing it later.

Most of what you request is possible and if you do a search there are examples of what you are requesting. i did notice that people did indeed get the cd to boot but didnt bother to go the extra mile and test if it actually located the filesystem.squashfs

Each distro has its own idiosyncrasies and some dont follow the path-media-file kernel option (among other options)

Ill leave you with some linkage to read up on..

grub4dos (reading the README_GRUB4DOS.txt that comes with grub4dos as well..):

http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/Grub4dos.htm

http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/basics.htm

http://www.themudcrab.com/acronis_grub4dos.php

Multibooting USB :

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=18846&hl=

USB Multi-pass:

http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?showtopic=14105&st=20

memdisk (allow booting legacy operating systems)

http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK

Misc:

http://www.instantfundas.com/2007/08/install-any-linux-distro-directly-from.html

http://www.w7forums.com/tips-using-grub4dos-install-windows-7-usb-storage-t6272.html

http://ccobb.net/demos/liveusb/

http://grml.org/online-docs/live-initramfs.en.7.html

http://diddy.boot-land.net/firadisk/files/imdisk.htm

http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

http://code.google.com/p/grub4dos-chenall/downloads/detail?name=grub4dos-0.4.5b-2011-07-24.7z <<Latest grub4dos

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs

Hope this helps.

August 20, 2011

Hope this helps as well. I dont like my / being cluttered so i generally boot from /boot/<distro> . "live-media-path=" is the key :)

examples:

title                Start BackTrack FrameBuffer (1024x768)
kernel                (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/vmlinuz live-media-path=/boot/bt5/casper file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper txt splash vga=0x317
initrd                (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/initrd.gz

title                Start BackTrack in Stealth Mode\nStealth mod No Networking Enabled..
kernel                (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/vmlinuz live-media-path=/boot/bt5/casper file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper txt splash staticip vga=0x317 
initrd                (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/initrds.gz

title                Start BackTrack in Safe Graphical Mode
kernel                (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/vmlinuz live-media-path=/boot/bt5/casper file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper splash xforcevesa vga=0x317
initrd                (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/initrd.gz

title                Start BackTrack noDRM\nNo DRM Drivers
kernel                (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/vmlinuz live-media-path=/boot/bt5/casper file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper txt splash nomodeset vga=0x317
initrd                (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/initrd.gz

title                Start BackTrack Debug\nSafeMode
kernel                (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/vmlinuz live-media-path=/boot/bt5/casper file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper txt splash vga=0x317
initrd                (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/initrd.gz

August 20, 2011

On a related note im running tails (http://tails.boum.org/about/index.en.html)

You might find interesting as well..

July 30, 2010

Hi D1g1ta1,
It took me a while, but I have finally found what you are after

Linksys WRT10N

http://www.linksysbycisco.com/ANZ/en/promo...-Step-WRT610N-2

I dont think that will replace the 2wire DSL modem. Im looking elsewhere for answers and will reply back with additional info.. Thanks for the help thou :)

July 30, 2010

i've been using an exe called obsolete to delete my old security camera files
the command was nice n simple

obsolete.exe -d 5 c:\camfiles\ *.jpg

something like that anyway

... by accident the other day i deleted it from the dir by doing a manual clear down (amateur error)

and now do you think i can find it anywhere ? no

... if any one has this prog or a link to it would be awesome

btw ive spent probably 4/5 hrs on google ... still no joy :(

You could use find from the GNU linux ports ( http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ) with the mtime switch to remove files. I have a 3rdparty directory where i place these the find.exe will need to be renamed to something else. But you get the idea..

Im not sure what Windoze version you are running but if you have powershell installed there is a way to automate this as well..

just my .02 cents :)

July 22, 2010

Im curious if anyone here has swapped out their 2wire router for something else?
Im not digging the management console and i need better policy rules and the ability to connect via https (which this router is lacking).

Any suggestions? If you want to point me to a FAQ or link feel free. :)

Wow, no one ? :(

July 15, 2010

is there a torrent out or Mediafire/megaupload links which i can download episodes from? because i have a low download cap during on peak and i have unlimited between 2am-8am and i dont want to stay up that late to manually download the episodes
any help is apprieciated

Here is a link:

http://media.ogo.ms/podcasts/hak5/

July 12, 2010

You know what troll? Fuck you.
... and on that note I would like to invite you to the next hak5 meetup so we can talk about this in person.

I wouldn't necessarily call troll but maybe a uncouth question that doesn't apply to the actual show.

I was curious the Rig that you run does it throw off a lot of heat into the room? I think the biggest problem is that when i run my gaming rig (non watercooled) the room i game in eventually gets about 15 degrees or more warmer.

Secondly i see watercooled mentioned is this just plain water or can you use some other liquid like antifreeze? Or some kind of formulation that keeps the tubing from gunking up..

Nice show and yes you can get cooties from simplying opening up your browser ;D

July 12, 2010

Hi Community,
Does any one know of a good freeware ISO image creator. I have used Nero Burning Rom but would like a freeware tool. I have lots of files that I would like to burn to DVD disk in form of ISO file.

Hope anyone can help me

Thank you in Advance.

Short and sweet :)

In windoze land i use http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

In *nix land i use: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html

July 12, 2010

Im curious if anyone here has swapped out their 2wire router for something else?

Im not digging the management console and i need better policy rules and the ability to connect via https (which this router is lacking).

Any suggestions? If you want to point me to a FAQ or link feel free. :)

July 12, 2010

So, I have a lot of free time and and old computer and want to try out a version of linux and try to learn some code of some programs and make sense of all the things I hear about on the show, and be able to do it. My question is, what version of linux should I download on this old computer? Also, what are some programs that are easy to learn code for. I will probably get the book "program name" for dummies, and youtube a bunch of videos about this program to try and make sense of it. Also, if you know any website that has useful help on these programs, listing them won't hurt any.

Never been a huge fan of Ubuntu but if you need a disto that gets you up and running its a good choice.

I stick with Gentoo / freeBSD / Debian

I dont know why im thinking you would like Gentoo : maybe because thats my primary OS Installed right now :)

Ultimately the best advice I can give you is first figure out a language you want to learn and go from there. Each distro has its quirks so you will end up learning the management portion as well while you are trying to learn programming.

Last thought is i know plenty of programmers and a few of them code on a windows based OS. Either way good luck..

https://help.ubuntu.com/

http://www.gentoo.org/

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1...book/index.html

http://www.debian.org/

July 12, 2010

http://www.dramabutton.com/

Ive always been fond of this one :)

http://instantrimshot.com/

July 12, 2010

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July 10, 2010

Use whatever you won't, don't piss and moan at others (that includes other linux users slagging off windows, you cunts annoy me as well)

Im going to have to agree. Back in the day we would argue what was better Amiga's or PC's occasionally the Macintosh was thrown in there but Yea, The OS is a tool to get the job done. Ive found anyone who simply says a particular OS sucks without providing any backing or this comment is just a fanboy to that os..

July 8, 2010

I hope it has an outcome like some where they have to either put it back or reimburse everyone that was hurt by! xD
also from what i've read the Air force have "unlocked" ps3's and sony did it for them so they could use the full cell processor in other OS other than the limits we public have to live with.

Right, it looks as if their current machines are running the other OS bios but if they swap out a PS3 for a new one its going to have the disabled bios there in lies the rub. :(

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