Comments on: Installing Ubuntu Hoary from LiveCD

By: Kousik

Kousik — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:23:21 +0000

I tried this with debian live.But there is squashfs instead of cloop.I installed it but have no idea about extracting sqashfs.Anybody help??

By: FOr KUBUNTU MAN

FOr KUBUNTU MAN — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:14:07 +0000

just copy xorg.conf to distro on harddisk

By: Dhananjay

Dhananjay — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:39:00 +0000

Can I install Inspire live by this method

By: gigcs

gigcs — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:41:20 +0000

NO , i make step bye step in this document . but i can’t boot to X window system and i use kubuntu . i get error “Fatal server error” xauth:(argv):1: bad display name “:0″ in “remove” command

I not sure i maybe wrong.

who can explain .

By: estabroo

estabroo — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:49:48 +0000

If your hard drive devices don’t exist in your newly created /dev then update-grub won’t create the menu.1st file and you won’t be able to run any of the commands in grub correctly. I had to do a cp -a /dev/sda* /mnt/dev/
After I did that everything worked fine.

Thanks a lot for the howto.

By: maxhdcse

maxhdcse — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 06:35:45 +0000

Thanks for the howto! Seriously, has nearly everything been done? I need some geeky projects and people keep hammering out this lil ideas I have for spending a week hating and loving all things techy.

By: noone cool

noone cool — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:26:34 +0000

You should remove the current initrd file and run mkinitrd as the last step before rebooting. So any needed drivers at boot time will be available. This fixes a VFS root mount error you might get if you use ext3, sata, scsi, etc.

rm /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-3-386 (Ã¢€”change this if neededÃ¢€”)
mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.10-3-386 2.6.10-3-386

By: derek

derek — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:32:19 +0000

Thanks for writing this up! I am finding this useful.

One thing (and this comes straight from Gentoo): since our resolv.conf already works (you said to configure it to apt-get cloop-utils), we could copy that to the directory with the chroot environment before we chroot into it (like when you copy /etc/network/interfaces).

But, as the immortal Larry Wall says, TMTOWTDI. Great document!

Peace,
Derek Arnold
Fellow Ubuntuer and WordPresser

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:55:11 +0000

Thanks for sharing the info. I’ve been looking for information on how to install a livecd that doesn’t include an installer. Although this is not quite what I was looking for it is a start and will help out if I want to make a custom Ubuntu Live CD. If I have the time. Take care.

By: Karl Hegbloom

Karl Hegbloom — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:36:14 +0000

If you put the following into the file /etc/kernel-img.conf:

# Do not create symbolic links in /
do_symlinks = no
relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no
postinst_hook = /sbin/update-grub
postrm_hook = /sbin/update-grub

… then kernel package installation will cause the grub menu.lst to be updated.