Hi all, As promised this is the installer package to create a bootable USB Flash drive that has Parted Magic + FreeDOS + Konboot + Boot&Nuke + Several chainloaders that I demo'ed on the last meeting, called flashmagic.
For those who is not familiar with Parted Magic, it's a nice package to check for hardware errors, resize/backup/image partitions, recover lost files,... FreeDOS is used for various purposes, but I guess the most useful feature is to upgrade your BIOS. There are tons of other things that you might find them useful. It's small, only takes ~25MB of your flash drive. This release is very rough, dumb and will definitely *wipe* your destination drive, so be careful with it when you specify your destination drive. Download, unarchive (unlzma + tar -xf) and run ./create-usb DEST-DRIVE e.g. /dev/sdb. You'll have to install syslinux either by apt-get or download and install by yourself, but it won't chainload other OSes if you use older version on the Ubuntu repo (3.6x?). Also, please note that any USB key that is created by flashmagic is self-installable so you can customize your flash drive, and clone it again by cd to your source flash drive and run the ./create-usb script. I really need some beta-testers who don't mind wiping their flash drives (and hard-drives maybe?) to test it. Please review the create-usb script to make sure that I did not do anything wrong (I don't think I do, but there are always a chance). Download it from here: http://wasabim.s3.amazonaws.com/flashmagic-0.0.1.tar.lzma Happy testing!
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