Thanks you all... @nio: You don't need to upload a new mkusb. I'm pretty sure that removing the sudo calls will make it work. My suggestion is to make it "mainstream". But I understand that this could also make things a litle more dificult for newcomers... but... Is up to you to decide...
@all: I tested Plop, and in some computers I have success. But on the last two machines I tried, I got freezed after USB boot. I made multiboot with Grub2 and also with HBCD (http://www.hirensbootcd.org/) Don't know If I'm doing something wrong, and I tested with different Plop managers from different HBCD versions! 2014/1/6 Nio Wiklund <[email protected]> > 2014-01-06 03:49, Andre Rodovalho skrev: > > I would like to know how can I create a DVD media with OBI and several > > Ubuntu flavors or other distros... > > > > The reason for that is, sometimes it is much easier to get a DVD drive > > than fighting to boot USB drives on old hardware... With such media, I > > could have about 4 distros, properly I could burn amd64 and i386 > > versions of Lubuntu, and have many other options to install > > > > I thought I could use the compressed dd image to get a iso file, and > > maybe with on this iso add some tarballs to /tarballs directory. But I > > never did something like this on Linux. Maybe there is a easier way to > > get this done too... > > > > Another thing, I would like to suggest an change on mkusb script. I > > recently had to use on the partimage linux. There is no "sudo" there, > > so I could not properly use this script to make a installation media. > > Root user is always available on this distro, and also, there is some > > distros that have no sudo binary... > > > > So, to get some more generic script, maybe the right thing to do is to > > remove all sudo from code, and run the script as root user. In a debian > > like distro "sudo ./mkusb". > > > > I'm hearing you thoughts... > > > > > > Hi Andre, > > > 1. Multiboot > > I see your point, but I think it will not be easy for me to make it. > > There are several multi-boot systems for USB drives that are easy to > create, but the ones that I know of for DVDs need remastering to be > created. Maybe somebody in the Lubuntu community knows how to do it and > would be prepared to make such a DVD image. > > Can *you* how are reading this now do it? > > > 2. One Button Installer on CD/DVD > > I agree with Brendan, that Plop is a good alternative. > > 2014-01-06 04:35, [email protected] skrev:> plop is really good > at getting things to boot off old hardware is plop > > boot manager. > > http://www.plop.at/ > > It is really easy for me to use at least. > > 2.1 I use a Plop CD to start some drivers that can boot a USB pendrive > in my oldest computer, a Compaq Presario 5640 with a 400 MHz Pentium II > CPU and 192 MB RAM. That way I can use the One Button Installer and > install an operating system from a tarball. > > 2.2 A second alternative would be to make the OBI work from a CD/DVD. A > couple of alternatives might work: > > A read/write CD/DVD system is possible but not very standardized, and > I'm afraid it might work only in a few CD/DVD hardware equipments. > > Making an OBI iso file by remastering an iso system: > > It would be more likely that a remastered iso system would work in most > computers with a CD/DVD drive (to make an iso file live system with the > OBI scripts included). I have never remastered a system, and need help > to learn how to do it or ask someone else to do the remastering, but if > many people want it, I think we should do it. > > > 3. mkusb without sudo > > Your question about mkusb should be easier to solve. I just tried to use > it without using sudo directly in the command line (but running as root > via sudo -s). > > The current version works like that for me. But I found that there are a > few calls with sudo, that should be removed from the script (two calls > of parted and one of fdisk), the others are only text strings in echo > statements. > ----- > grep 'sudo ' ~/bin/mkusb > for i in /dev/[^f]d?; do sudo parted -ls|grep -B1 "$i"|tr '\n' '\t';echo > "";done > tj="$(sudo parted -ls|grep -B1 "$j"|tr '\n' ' '|sed s/Model:\ //;echo > "")" > tj=$(sudo fdisk -lu "$j" 2>/dev/null|grep "$j":|sed s/\,\ .*//) > echo "sudo $0 file.iso" > echo "sudo $0 file.img.gz" > echo "sudo $0 file.img.xz" > echo "sudo $0 wipe-all" > echo "sudo $0 wipe-1" > echo "sudo $0 $1" > echo "sudo lshw -class disk #####" > "$hlptxt" > echo "sudo fdisk -lu 2>/dev/null|grep "/dev/[^f]d"|sort #####" >> > "$hlptxt" > ----- > > Can you try it after removing those sudos yourself, or do you want me to > upload a release candidate to test? > > If that does not work, there might be something else, that is used by > the bash script in an Ubuntu based system, that is not available in the > other system (in partimage linux). In that case, do you get an error > message or warning? > > Best regards > Nio > >
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