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]]>ok, you mean i need the gui version of unetbootin that allows to choose iso/initrd/kernels?
not the archlinux-ready version of unetbootin found on that page http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … _id=198821 ?thanks
and, just to be curious, i had already installed some linux distros from the hard disk, but without your script, i had just copied initrd and vmlinuz files from the isos' isolinux directory, and then added an entry in my grub for these 2 files
then i booted these, and the distro installer prompts the installation method ( ftp, iso located on hard disk etc .. ) then the installation begun as normalwhat does your script precisely do in the case of archlinux, are there any additional steps ? ( as the /arch/setup is not "contained" within the initrd and kernels, so the initrd image and the kernel are not sufficient to lead to the installation method screen isn't it ? )
i tried to read the sources, but i'm far from fluent in cpp so ...
Oh darn nevermind I replied too fast; I was looking at the contents of a previous release's ISO file. The initrd file's name appears to have changed to "archlive.img" in the latest version, so no UNetbootin won't work with it for now, until I've updated it. The way it works is that it extracts the contents of the ISO file to the target drive (these days installation to USB drives appears to be the most widely-used approach), locates the grub, syslinux configs to get the boot parameters, and attempts to locate the kernel and initrd files based on filesize and name patterns (which the current version has an issue with). So sorry, you'll have to wait for the next release (or you can work around this issue by copying /boot/archlive.img to /ubninit after installation, it should work then)
]]>thanks
and, just to be curious, i had already installed some linux distros from the hard disk, but without your script, i had just copied initrd and vmlinuz files from the isos' isolinux directory, and then added an entry in my grub for these 2 files
then i booted these, and the distro installer prompts the installation method ( ftp, iso located on hard disk etc .. ) then the installation begun as normal
what does your script precisely do in the case of archlinux, are there any additional steps ? ( as the /arch/setup is not "contained" within the initrd and kernels, so the initrd image and the kernel are not sufficient to lead to the installation method screen isn't it ? )
i tried to read the sources, but i'm far from fluent in cpp so ...
]]>hi !
sorry to up this 6 months old postbut does this installation method still works with the newest archlinux release ?
thanks
Yeah, still works. You'll want the version from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ though, and you'll need to manually specify the FTP-install ISO ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/iso/2008.06/arc … p-i686.iso for the latest release. I'll have the guide and application updated soon for the latest release.
]]>but does this installation method still works with the newest archlinux release ?
thanks
]]>what would you recommend?
it's a toshiba s1700-200
64mb ram
650mhz celeron
Damn Small Linux (aka DSL) should work nicely, if you try anything with a full-blown desktop environment like XFCE it'll run unbearably slow. Debian or Ubuntu (or basically anything) with Fluxbox or IceWM should also run well.
]]>This is my salvation. I have an old Toshiba Satellite that I want to put to use, but it's cd drive is jammed.
When I boot to UNetbootin it crashes with a Kernel Panic error.. why does this happen?
Most likely, it's some hardware incompatibility with ArchLinux of some sort (I've encountered that error a few times when running off some obscure hard drive controllers, this is probably the same situation). Either that, or your machine ran out or RAM while launching the installer (the initrd are kernel rather large, around 40 MB compressed and even more uncomressed, so you might run into issues if you have less than around 128 MB of RAM). If you want to try Linux on the machine, but don't specifically need Arch, I'd suggest just trying a different distro; they might be more compatible with whatever hardware is causing the kernel panic.
]]>When I boot to UNetbootin it crashes with a Kernel Panic error.. why does this happen?
]]>I've released a new version of UNetbootin, shell-script (.sh) version, now with 2 oft-requested features:
1. Ability to install from a liveCD or other live-media (liveUSB) install, as well as the ability to specify a target partition and (optionally) grub or lilo as the bootloader (this is the installmode=nohost option)
2. Ability to install to a USB drive in order to create a bootable-USB-netboot installer (this is the installmode=usbdrive option)
As for the original behavior (chainload from the host hard-drive grub installation), that can be accessed through the installmode=tohost option.
Anyhow, here's the syntax and options for running (This example is for Fedora 8, but I've also uploaded the new .sh builds for Ubuntu 7.10, openSUSE 10.3, Debian 4.0, CentOS 5.1, Arch Linux, Mandriva 2008, and Slackware 12.0):
If you are running this script from a host, hard-drive Linux install, and want the GRUB bootloader installed in /boot to be used, enter:
./unetbootin-fedora8rev49.sh installmode=tohost
Otherwise, if you are running this script from a liveCD or other live, non-hard drive media, or the installmode=tohost option fails, or you want to specify your target partition (targetpartition=/dev/sda1) or (optionally) the bootloader (bootloader=grub or bootloader=lilo), enter, in addition to the targetpartition and formatpartition options:
./unetbootin-fedora8rev49.sh installmode=nohost targetpartition=/dev/sda1 formatpartition=yes
Otherwise, if you want to install to a USB drive, enter, in addition to the targetpartition and formatpartition options:
./unetbootin-fedora8rev49.sh installmode=usbdrive targetpartition=/dev/sda1 formatpartition=yes
Ususal download spot at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … _id=198821
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