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A build of an operating system that can run directly from a CD/DVD disk or image.

A build of an operating system that can run directly from a CD/DVD disk or image. Live CDs are often used to demo the software, to provide a full recovery environment, or to present a richer installation experience.

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Mounting a partition on the same drive as the live cd OS

I have looked all over the internet and I cannot find any insights into exactly what I am trying to do. I have a live cd of a flavor of debian that I am trying to install onto a hard drive for use as a rescue disk. The drive is partitioned with two…
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export a cdrom iso image with targetcli

In tgtd on fedora linux it is easy to export cdroms to iscsi. But i do not find any documentation how to do this with targetcli and LIO. The only examples I find are about creating file backends with new files, but what about existing cdrom image…
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/bin and /usr/bin set to 400, way to fix without live disk?

We have a minor disaster on a Centos7 system. A bug in a config script recursively set /, /bin, and /usr/bin, to 400 permissions. This means that basic commands like, chmod, mount, and almost everything else is un-executable. I'm pretty confident I…
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Fsck finds errors in OS, but not using LiveCD

Running fsck on a booted machine yields errors on the root file system. In an attempt to fix this, I booted from a LiveCD - but fsck on the LiveCD instance doesn't find any errors at all. I also tried running the same binary which a booted system…
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Use a linux (Ubuntu) live cd to read a hardware RAID array

I've got a Dell Poweredge 2900 server on it's face. We have had issues with it's PERC 6/i RAID controller over and over this last week. The server's OS is Small Business Server 2008 and it's RAID 5 I'm trying to figure out a way to not boot to the…
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Swap on Ubuntu and CentOS

I have two questions, which is both related to a swap partition or file. Is it possible to install either Ubuntu or CentOS without a swap configured, without tinkering? Live CDs like Ubuntu, is there any swap involved? I was thinking that there…
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Have you ever used kon-boot?

Has anyone here ever used kon-boot? I guess it may work because of the few blog posts about it but I feel kinda concerned and am interested at hearing experiences from anyone who have used multiple times with no side effects. I am slightly worried…
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Instructions/Recommendations for creating a Linux LiveCD/DVD?

It's been a few years since I've created a Linux LiveCD, so I thought I'd ask this community for some best practices before I make my next attempt. My goal is to create a Linux Live CD/DVD for a reasonably new (less than 2 years old) PC (not Mac).…
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Need temperature readings from a live CD/USB

I have a laptop that is sometimes restarting and I want to check if it is overheating. It is an Intel dual core laptop and it doesn't have the temperature sensor readings as an option in the BIOS setup menu. I want a program/script on a live CD or…
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CentOS live CD does not boot

Seems very trivial but still ... I followed the instructions here: https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/CreateImage None of the images created boot. I tried VMWARE Workstation (v6.5) as well as VirtualBox v3.2OSE. In both cases I see the…
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SLAX behaves differently when booted via PXE vs LiveCD from the same iso

I have a SLAX iso that I have created that is used only to run the Citrix ICA client. The ICA client is started in /root/.xinitrc, and when booting from the LiveCD it works properly. /root/.xinitrc is in the rootcopy folder on the iso. However,…
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regenerate iso file from running livecd -- dd won't run reliably and genisoimage has catch-22s

In the field I need some users to be able to make iso files reliably from a cdrom that is also serving as a mounted LiveCD and so I concocted a manual test case before doing any scripting. The test case fails. ISO Duplication Test Procedure To be…
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Mount is unable to allocate memory

Invoking the following crashes immediately with mount claiming its unable to allocate memory: sudo mount -t overlay overlay -o lowerdir=/home/foo,upperdir=/mnt/home /home/foo For context, /mnt/home is /dev/sda3, the 3rd partition of a flash drive…
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live Boot any linux distro to console

Is there any .iso linux image distro that boots into console and not into x? I just want to run some simple linux commands like ethtool alternatively, I would like any boot cd that let me test the physical connection of a NIC. Thanks.
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How can I access a LVMs in a partition using a LiveCD?

I have a server running Centos 6 in a data centre that suffered a kernal panic which then prevented the OS from booting (according to the support staff in the DC). The DC support staff also suggested they could not see the partitions. Unfortunately…
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