<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> 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.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Kevin Fries<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'> From: ubuntu-us-co-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-us-co-bounces@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<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> 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.<o:p></o:p> <div> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Kevin Fries <<a href="mailto:kfries@cctus.com">kfries@cctus.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p> <div> <div> OK, you have me confused, so you are probably confusing others also.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> If you simply want a command line, you can always just chroot into the directory where you extracted the files.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> On the other hand, if you are trying to install onto your hard drive:<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> … 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.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> … and you are trying to install into a separate directory, I would just chroot into that directory, then manually start the text based installer.<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> Hope I helped in some way<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> Kevin Fries<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in; border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color'> From: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-co-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-us-co-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-co-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-us-co-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a>] 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<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> <div> 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: <a href="http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t305843.html" target="_blank">http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t305843.html</a> But, that is for noppix, and isn't quite perfect. So, i wen't to this, which was closer, but still not perfect. <a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/fluxbuntu-poor-mans-install-is-it-possible-531616/" target="_blank">http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/fluxbuntu-poor-mans-install-is-it-possible-531616/</a> 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<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> -- Ubuntu-us-co mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co</a><o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </div> </body> </html>