[Voyage-linux] Installing Voyage Linux with extlinux using Live CD

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi all,

Not sure why the text does not align correctly, please refer to the Live 
CD Readme instead:
http://cvs.voyage.hk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/voyage-custom/src/live-cd/overlay_fs/README.live-cd 


Regards,
Punky

Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Happy Lunar New Year to all of you!   Last night I have tried a new 
> installation method using extlinux from Live CD.  Using this method,
>
> 1. You will have a read-only squashfs root filesystem on a CF that 
> consumes just 36MB. 2. You cannot modify the rootfs
> 3. By default, all changes made to the system reside on tmpfs.  I.e. 
> Changes are lost after reboot
> 4. You can preserve the changes by creating another partition and 
> labeled it as "caspser-rw", or create a loopback file called 
> "caspser-rw" at / (see 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDPersistence: this is not 
> tested and need more exploration)
> 5. You will still be able to boot Live CD again after the 
> installation.  But once the CD is booted, the installed disk with be 
> mounted as rootfs (it should be the CD) and no way to unmount it.  
> I.e. a bug needs fix or workaround.
>
> See below for instruction:
>
> ============================================================================== 
>
>
> 1. As usual, create mount point for the installation disk and format it
>    # mkdir /tmp/cf
>    # /usr/local/sbin/format-cf.sh /dev/hda
> This will create /dev/hda1 ext2 partition on /dev/hda disk device. ** 
> Note that this operation is very dangerous since it will erase your 
> disk!   Make sure what you are doing and must do it right!
>   2. Mount the disk and copy CD content to disk device
>       # mount /dev/hda1 /tmp/cf
>    # rsync -aHx /live_media/* /tmp/cf/
>     
> 3. Create extlinux.conf and install extlinux       # cp 
> /tmp/cf/isolinux/isolinux.cfg /tmp/cf/isolinux/extlinux.conf
>    # extlinux -i /tmp/cf/isolinux     
> 4. Update master boot record for disk device
>       # cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/hda
>     
> After all, reboot!
>
> ============================================================================== 
>
>
> I believe that this installation method also work under PXE boot.  And 
> yes, I have not tested.
>
> Same instruction also appears at the end of Live CD Readme:
> http://cvs.voyage.hk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/voyage-custom/src/live-cd/overlay_fs/README.live-cd 
>
>


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