Episode 5x24, USB Multipass Options

[H@L0_F00]

I asked because i didn't know, but I guess there really IS such a thing as a stupid question. :blink:

I just don't know where to start with this, could I boot it off the ISO or should I make a live USB and then copy it then to the "Multi-Pass". my main issue is that its got its own menu.lst that used to boot its different version (nVidia/AMD/intell).

Is it even possible to get the above menu.lst to run another menu.lst? Or am I even asking the right questions?

Any help would be great.

Try the ISO... Then try extracting the ISO... Then try the LiveUSB... And next time, please don't ask what to do when you haven't even attempted it...

[numb3rs]

Yes you can.

CODE

title what title you want
root (hd0,0)
configfile /yoursecondlstnamehere.lst
savedefault

place the secondlst.lst on the root of your drive.

[H@L0_F00]

Yes you can.

CODE

title what title you want
root (hd0,0)
configfile /yoursecondlstnamehere.lst
savedefault

place the secondlst.lst on the root of your drive.

A .lst file can be in any directory, just to clear things up.

And can I get some feedback on the VM I made? Is it working for everybody? Mine goes a bit slower than a regular boot but increasing the RAM from 512 to 1024 helped a lot. How do you guys like it? I'd really appreciate it if you'd lemme know how it's going for you.

[nVus]

Thanks for your Help guys to those who did help me
And for those that didn't........

..... a thousand words!

[H@L0_F00]

Thanks for your Help guys to those who did help me :)
And for those that didn't........

..... a thousand words!

aha wow... Really? What are you, 10? That's quite childish. But the really sad thing is, I'm probably much younger than you... :)

[Qwerty 2013]

And can I get some feedback on the VM I made? Is it working for everybody? Mine goes a bit slower than a regular boot but increasing the RAM from 512 to 1024 helped a lot. How do you guys like it? I'd really appreciate it if you'd lemme know how it's going for you.

I was unable to extract the files from the compressed file that downloaded. When attempting to extract them, I get an "Unspecified Error" (Thank you Microsoft for the helpful information!). I tried to download it a couple times with the same results. Is there anything special I need to do to extract these files?

Ok, so the default "Compressed File" deal that comes with Win7 didn't like it, but when I unzipped with "WinZip" all was fine. I have successfully booted and test my MultiPass. THANK YOU! I was tired of rebooting my machine to test this.

[Qwerty 2013]

Got Spin Rite to work if anyone needs it...



title Spin Rite 6
map (hd0,0)/Spinrite/SpinRite.img (fd0)
map --hook
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)

Thank you! Works great.

[H@L0_F00]

I was unable to extract the files from the compressed file that downloaded. When attempting to extract them, I get an "Unspecified Error" (Thank you Microsoft for the helpful information!). I tried to download it a couple times with the same results. Is there anything special I need to do to extract these files?

Ok, so the default "Compressed File" deal that comes with Win7 didn't like it, but when I unzipped with "WinZip" all was fine. I have successfully booted and test my MultiPass. THANK YOU! I was tired of rebooting my machine to test this.

Thanks, good to know it's working for you. I think the problem with the default uncompression method is that I used Zip LZMA (instead of the default Deflate method) to compress it as much as possible. It opened fine with the "Compressed (zipped) Folders" option XP so I uploaded it. If anybody else is having the same problem let me know and I can redo it or you can download Z-Zip which is what I used to compress it.

[anthrounit]

anyone gotten a windows xp iso to work correctly? if so could you post the code? as for the product key i am using nLite to make it a full unattended install putting the key in for me so solve one problem.

[H@L0_F00]

anyone gotten a windows xp iso to work correctly? if so could you post the code? as for the product key i am using nLite to make it a full unattended install putting the key in for me so solve one problem.

I used this and can boot both setup parts although I haven't tested an install because it's slow as all hell like everybody else already mentioned.

[IAmWEC]

I am starting to get the hang of this thing finally. I have four working programs on it and four more with test code in the menu.lst files and the software downloading. I am really excited about this thing! The only thing that is giving me hell is Trinity. I can get it to boot, but when it boots, it says that it can't find the partition or hard drive or something like that. I tried a mentioned idea of putting a second partition on the flash drive, but it kept locking me out of it and I had to reformat (Thank god I backed up). I mainly wanted it for it's virus scanning capabilities, so if there is an alternate to this, what is it? Anyone else get Trinity to work? Thanks!

New member,
WEC

[H@L0_F00]

I am starting to get the hang of this thing finally. I have four working programs on it and four more with test code in the menu.lst files and the software downloading. I am really excited about this thing! The only thing that is giving me hell is Trinity. I can get it to boot, but when it boots, it says that it can't find the partition or hard drive or something like that. I tried a mentioned idea of putting a second partition on the flash drive, but it kept locking me out of it and I had to reformat (Thank god I backed up). I mainly wanted it for it's virus scanning capabilities, so if there is an alternate to this, what is it? Anyone else get Trinity to work? Thanks! :)

New member,
WEC

It can't find the partition because it looks for the volume name. If you were trying to make more than a single partition on a flash drive I hope it wasn't on Windows because it's not just point and click. Use GParted or QTParted from a Linux LiveCD to multi-partition your flash drive if you want. Or you could edit the boot config file like this:

I haven't tried this yet but found this in the Trinity Documentation


Link

[IAmWEC]

Well thanks! I was using Acronis Disk Director to partition it, and didn't even mess with Windows partitioning, but I'll go ahead and try GParted now!

[Jonathan]

Hi,

Neither "PeToUSB" nor "grubinst_gui.exe" can identify any drives on my machine; HDD or USB or otherwise. I am running Windows Vista on my Samsung laptop.

Am I missing something blindingly obvious?

I have been enjoying Hak-5 for a while, but most of it is over my head. This looks like a fun project though, although I am damned if I can get it to work at the moment....

Any help? Cheers

Jonathan

[Säätäjä]

Neither "PeToUSB" nor "grubinst_gui.exe" can identify any drives on my machine; HDD or USB or otherwise. I am running Windows Vista on my Samsung laptop.

Am I missing something blindingly obvious?

Right click, run as administrator?

[Jonathan]

Right click, run as administrator?

Brilliant!

Now, can someone tell me why when I logged out and logged in again using the Administrator account it was not working?

Many thanks, Säätäjä

[Psychosis]

UAC. That's why.

[Makeveli]

Sorry to be such a newb. But is was wondering the menu.lst config for xPUD. I'm trying to get a handle on this whole thing and with linux to get away from micro$oft

[Wetwork]

If anyone is interested i got Nbuntu to work on my Multipass

title Nbuntu LiveCD
find --set-root /nubuntu-8.04-alpha-i386.iso
map /nubuntu-8.04-alpha-i386.iso (0xff)
map --hook
root (0xff)
kernel /casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/nubuntu-8.04-alpha-i386.iso quiet splash locale=en.UTF-8 --
initrd /casper/initrd.gz
boot

as you can see its very similar to Unbuntu in the GRUB design

[Jonathan]

I found out you can boot ubuntu with the iso and have persistence. You need to put a casper-rw file on root and use this:

Now I am trying to figure out how to have multiple casper-rw files for some different isos.

Hey, Sirpoonga,

Did you get that Ubuntu with persistence to work? I tried putting the casper-rw file in root (with everything else - only other thing of interest being the Ubuntu iso) and it was not exhibiting persistence for me. Can you do it for other stuff?

Cheers

Jonathan