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Scooby

Joined: 03 Mar 2012
Posts: 251

Posted: Thu 11 Apr 2013, 06:36 Post subject:

DrDeaf wrote:

Whether it's a "phantom" or a "window" I am interested in understanding how the mechanics of this works.

If you want to know more about how Easy2Boot works
you can check out its homepage at

https://sites.google.com/a/rmprepusb.com/www/tutorials/72---easyboot---a-grubdos-multiboot-drive-that-is-easy-to-maintain/e2bv1

DrDeaf

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 49

Posted: Mon 15 Apr 2013, 18:36 Post subject:

Hello Amigo!

amigo wrote:

mount -o ro /dev/somedev /some/mountpoint

Thanks for your reply, I do understand that and I just wasn't clear in what I wrote, that what I wanted to see when I plugged in an external drive was the icon appear in the lower left hand corner and a right click would offer a mount read only option. I had hunted through the utilities for a way to no avail.
I do miss seeing the active path precede the cursor. Other little things too but it will just take time to become accustomed to it all. Typing in a bare command to see what the correct arguments are here, etc.
Thanks again for your kind reply!

DrDeaf

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 49

Posted: Mon 15 Apr 2013, 19:03 Post subject:

Scooby wrote:

If you want to know more about how Easy2Boot works
you can check out its homepage at

Thanks Scooby. When I was first thinking about the ISO thing I chose your Alt. 1 (Easy2Boot-grub4dos_v0.5.zip) since I was already using Grub4Dos to boot different versions from different partitions on a read only card and that had worked well. Your files worked well but I had to leave the media rw so that the sdx4 partition could be created. I did read about Easy2Boot back then and I noticed that he was working on a version to use Windows ISOs as well.
Thanks to your reply here, I went back and looked again. Now the new version is out and I saw much more than just Windows added.
Now, an ".isomem" extension is recognized to cause a non-contiguous ISO to be copied to RAM first. It will try to write the sdx4 phantom partition but perhaps it would boot anyway.
Yes!
The new version does work on a read only media!
It does not fail if it can not write the dbx4 partition!
Success, and a big "Thanks" Very Happy

DrDeaf

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 49

Posted: Mon 15 Apr 2013, 19:06 Post subject:

Thanks!

Should have read down deeper. Just in a hurry!

muggins wrote:

DrDeaf wrote:

Quote:

"3. Create a new ext2 partition and flag it as bootable."

That's from the grub2 part of the thread...in isobooter section, further below, it has:

Quote:

1. Format the flash drive partition as FAT32. Flag it bootable.

Scooby

Joined: 03 Mar 2012
Posts: 251

Posted: Thu 18 Apr 2013, 07:00 Post subject:

DrDeaf wrote:

Now, an ".isomem" extension is recognized to cause a non-contiguous ISO to be copied to RAM first.

That sounds great!

simargl

Joined: 11 Feb 2013
Posts: 572

Posted: Sat 27 Apr 2013, 05:53 Post subject:

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