[CoLoCo] running LiveCD from HD help

[Andrew]

Yeah i definitely do not want to go that route, way too complicated. I'm not
opposed to using a virtual machine, just the logic i had was that it should
work off the bat like a regular cd, just need to know how to tell grub to
boot it. But, VM seems to be easy too...

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:

>  There is another way of doing it, but boy is that ever complicated.  It
> involved running Xserver-Xephyr to create a second X server running nested
> inside your main X server.  Then you need to run the CD in a separate
> process, and bind that instance to Xephyr.  There, no VM.  But, that being
> said, if all you want is a solution that works to try this software, I would
> just use the simplicity of a Virtual Machine.
>
>
>
> Kevin Fries
>
>
>
> *From:* ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:
> ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:06 AM
> *To:* Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team
> *Subject:* Re: [CoLoCo] running LiveCD from HD help
>
>
>
> Well, i just wanted to try it out like i was booting from it burned on a
> cd, but really didn't want to use a VM. But, maybe that would just be
> easier. It just bugs me that i almost got it to boot this way. Some people
> call it the "poor man's install" even though most don't install with it.
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:
>
> OK, you have me confused, so you are probably confusing others also.
>
>
>
> If you are trying to run the CD like it would in the drive, complete with a
> GUI desktop, use something like VM-Ware or Sun's VirtualBox.  Load the CD in
> the VM and no hard drive.  Start the VM, and it will run in a window on your
> machine.
>
>
>
> If you simply want a command line, you can always just chroot into the
> directory where you extracted the files.
>
>
>
> On the other hand, if you are trying to install onto your hard drive:
>
>
>
> … and you are trying to replace your current OS, you need to add the kernel
> and boot info to your existing /boot directory, then add a new grub menu
> listing to load that kernel.  Most CDs that I have ever used will then start
> the install.
>
>
>
> … and you are trying to install into a separate directory, I would just
> chroot into that directory, then manually start the text based installer.
>
>
>
> Hope I helped in some way
>
>
>
>
>
> Kevin Fries
>
>
>
> *From:* ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:
> ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:52 AM
> *To:* Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team
> *Subject:* [CoLoCo] running LiveCD from HD help
>
>
>
> Since i didn't have a dvd on hand to try out the gOS space thing, i decided
> i would try to run it from my hard drive instead. I've gotten close several
> times, but I am having some problems.
>
> I started based of this first:
>
> http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t305843.html
>
> But, that is for noppix, and isn't quite perfect. So, i wen't to this,
> which was closer, but still not perfect.
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/fluxbuntu-poor-mans-install-is-it-possible-531616/
>
> I've gotten the live-dvd extracted to /mnt/hda4/gOS
>
> and this is the current grub initiation i'm using, but it gives me a
> busybox and a initramfs prompt instead of booting up.
>
> title gOS Live-CD from HD
>
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /mnt/hda4/gOS/casper/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw
> quiet splash
> initrd /mnt/hda4/gOS/casper/initrd.gz
> savedefault
> boot
>
>
>
> any suggestions would help. Thanks.
>
> -Andrew
>
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