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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/14/2014 07:49 AM, Eric Bradshaw
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type="cite">Oh, silly me. I forgot about OBI until after I'd
already send my last post. I was going to add it this morning, but
Israel beat me to it. Since the creator of OBI frequents this mail
list, that may be the best route for you John. He's gotten a lot
of input from others here.<br>
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(I think) I am closer with Black Dog Image Creator. I was pretty
excited that I'd found "the" issue, and I think I am on the right
track, but still no working iso. I changed line 399 again to take
the vesamenu.c32 from syslinux/modules/bios/ instead because I saw
there was actually a file called ldlinux.c32 in that bios
directory.<br>
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After making a DVD from that iso, I got no error about
ldlinux.c32, but did get two more;<br>
Failed to load libcom32.c32 and Failed to load COM32 file
vesamenu.c32 - and it again halted there.<br>
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I also noticed a file called boot.cat that was present in my
previous respins, but wasn't anywhere on my 14.10 system I could
find, so I actually copied it into the syslinux/modules/bios/
directory. Then I added a line to blacklabimager to get all the
files from the bios directory including the boot.cat one I had
added into it;<br>
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cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/* $WORKDIR/ISOTMP/isolinux<br>
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It booted this time! However, I still didn't see my own vesamenu.
I instead was greeted with my splash screen graphic and a "Guest"
login invitation and that led nowhere of course.<br>
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I will work on it more later. Gotta' go to work now.<br>
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Eric Bradshaw<br>
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OBI is a great option for you too. It uses dd to image the device.
I think it would be a good option for you. I have successfully
installed and entire OS in about 3 minutes.<br>
Of course the method is entirely different.<br>
To use it you could use Nio's current OBI system and simply make a
tarball of your system and install it.<br>
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Basically what you do is set up a system just how you like it. Then
you boot the OBI and make a tarball of the entire drive... this only
works if you have a root partition and a swap ONLY. Then you reboot
into the OBI with that tarball on your OBI disk. You select it, and
install it. The install is so fast you will be amazed!<br>
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It wont probably work for your respin CD, but it will work for you
installing on other devices you get in your shop. It may be much
faster and more efficient for you. You only have to customize
something once. And you can start it in OEM mode which means the
user will be able to create a new account, and password.<br>
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Anyhow... it is something to consider.<br>
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