How do I boot the Live-CD without creating a pup001 file?
Posted: Tue 20 Sep 2005, 15:19
I apologize if this is covered elsewhere (I've looked in the FAQ, Wiki and searched the forum), but I would like to boot Puppy "knoppix-style", without it writing anything to the hard disk.
According to the isolinux.cfg file, there are four different boot options:
Does "label 5" do what I want?
If not, is it possible to copy the content of my Puppy Live-CD to a folder (in windows), edit isolinux.cfg to this
burn the puppy files (user_cram.fs, goofy.16 etc.) together with the modified isolinux.cfg on a CD as usual in Nero, and have it work?
Puppy Linux is by far the best Bootable (almost)Business Card distro I've tried so far, but I can't include it in my salvage-the-files-on-my-friends-supposedly-FUBARed-computer-toolkit if I can't guarantee that it won't write to a harddrive unless told otherwise.
According to the isolinux.cfg file, there are four different boot options:
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default 1
DISPLAY BOOT.MSG
SAY MENU: 2 No acpi 3 Choose HD (ENTER only or 10sec timeout for normal boot)
prompt 1
label 1
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz PFILE=pup001-none-262144
label 2
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz acpi=off PFILE=pup001-none-262144
label 3
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz acpi=off PFILE=ask
label 5
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz PFILE=cd
timeout 100
If not, is it possible to copy the content of my Puppy Live-CD to a folder (in windows), edit isolinux.cfg to this
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default 4
DISPLAY BOOT.MSG
SAY MENU: 1 Normal boot + pup001 file 2 No acpi 3 Choose HD 4 Normal boot NO pup001 file 5 Mystery option (ENTER only or 60sec timeout for normal boot)
prompt 1
label 1
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz PFILE=pup001-none-262144
label 2
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz acpi=off PFILE=pup001-none-262144
label 3
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz acpi=off PFILE=ask
label 4
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz PFILE=none
label 5
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz PFILE=cd
timeout 600
Puppy Linux is by far the best Bootable (almost)Business Card distro I've tried so far, but I can't include it in my salvage-the-files-on-my-friends-supposedly-FUBARed-computer-toolkit if I can't guarantee that it won't write to a harddrive unless told otherwise.