[syslinux] Live linux booting

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 19 Aug 2011 at 12:13, Karl Schmidt wrote:

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> I put up a page to document my research here -
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> http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/Live_Linux_systems
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> If anything appears wrong - please point it out or edit it correct..

In regards to g4l, for which I've been then maintainer since about 
2005.

Based on: It uses kernels from Kernel.org with busybox and 
utilites and libraries from Fedora (14 at this time).

Ram Resident: After boot from the CD using syslinux it is 
completely ram resident and doesn't need the cd. The kernel and 
ramdisk can also be loaded via grub or grub4dos into ram also. 
With grub4dos, it can also load in ram from an ntfs partition.

Clone whole disk: G4L can make images of both disks and 
partitions using dd. It includes ntfsclone and fsarciver (0.6 and 
0.7beta) that can backup partitions file data.

jfs lvm support: G4L does bit level images so can be used to back 
up partitions regardless of underlying system. It also can backup 
the lvm partitions separately, but the lvm setup would have to be 
created. I generally just backup the partition that contains the lvm 
partitions. Don't know about jfs being able to mount?

memdisk iso boot: Have not tired it? The kernel file and 
ramdisk.lzma file can be added to syslinux, grub, and grub4dos, 
whereas the iso image has a number of kernels to hopefully have 
one that supports various hardware.

featues: Uses dd with compression for a number of options, but 
included testdisk, ntfsclone, fsarchiver, older partimage, text only. 





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