Hi, PCOS08

Thank you for creating this distro which I think is impressive, user friendly, and has beautifully achieved your target to "simplified computing”. "Impressive" it is, for it works always whatever application it offers right after the liveCD is burnt out. This is outstanding in the Linux world, for having tried not less than a dozen of distro from Distrowatch, including those top three, Ubuntu, opensuse, and fedora, I find myself being stuck at one point or another, (non-free codecs!) and frustrated by the speed and contents of their repositories.

While I use PC/OS with the HD installation, quite often I carry the liveCD around enjoying its portability and convenience. What I need now is a USB flash installation method to take this further to replace my existing Ubuntu 7 usb flash. From a user's standpoint, considering the speed (7M for a 52X CD-Rom vs 20+M USB2 flash), quietness and size, a USB flash has its edges far surpass a liveCD.


In my successful installation of Ubuntu flash, I followed the steps in :

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/04/09 ... m-windows/

I've also tried the same method with the Ultimate Edition 1.8, based on Hardy Heron, with no problem.

So being within the same breed would PC/OS be installed likewise with little tweak and fix?


regards,

simonwong

Technically, yes it should. One of the problems Im having with Wubi for example is that it will only install from the CD ISO and not the DVD ISO, dont ask why it just fails. So I would say try both and see what happens. If it fails do let me know, if it succeeds let the forums know as this has been one of the requests that I have been working on for awhile.

simonwong wrote:Hi, PCOS08

Thank you for creating this distro which I think is impressive, user friendly, and has beautifully achieved your target to "simplified computing”. "Impressive" it is, for it works always whatever application it offers right after the liveCD is burnt out. This is outstanding in the Linux world, for having tried not less than a dozen of distro from Distrowatch, including those top three, Ubuntu, opensuse, and fedora, I find myself being stuck at one point or another, (non-free codecs!) and frustrated by the speed and contents of their repositories.

While I use PC/OS with the HD installation, quite often I carry the liveCD around enjoying its portability and convenience. What I need now is a USB flash installation method to take this further to replace my existing Ubuntu 7 usb flash. From a user's standpoint, considering the speed (7M for a 52X CD-Rom vs 20+M USB2 flash), quietness and size, a USB flash has its edges far surpass a liveCD.


In my successful installation of Ubuntu flash, I followed the steps in :

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/04/09 ... m-windows/

I've also tried the same method with the Ultimate Edition 1.8, based on Hardy Heron, with no problem.

So being within the same breed would PC/OS be installed likewise with little tweak and fix?


regards,

simonwong

It did not work out. I tried making a flash drive through both of the Linux and Windows methods as outlined in Pendrivelinux, which work in my case with Ubuntu 8.04, but my attempts this time were only to find "Failed to load OS. Press any key to reboot" at booting up.

Has anybody tried with success?

Did you try the DVD or CD ISO?

simonwong wrote::cry: It did not work out. I tried making a flash drive through both of the Linux and Windows methods as outlined in Pendrivelinux, which work in my case with Ubuntu 8.04, but my attempts this time were only to find "Failed to load OS. Press any key to reboot" at booting up.

Has anybody tried with success?

[quote="pcos08"]Did you try the DVD or CD ISO?


The liveDVD. And this time with the liveCD, basically according to the steps in:

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/05/21 ... m-live-cd/

skipping steps from 17 to 21 for a persistent drive to avoid messing up the matter, and copying all corresponding contents of the liveCD at step 16, and tried the "lilo -M /dev/sda" command when it failed at the first time.

The boot failure message is " Could not find kernel image: linux" and a prompt for further command "boot:"

Im going to work on this and PM me or e-mail me so we can work on this together that way others who may find this useful can put this to good use as well.

simonwong wrote:

pcos08 wrote:Did you try the DVD or CD ISO?


The liveDVD. And this time with the liveCD, basically according to the steps in:

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/05/21 ... m-live-cd/

skipping steps from 17 to 21 for a persistent drive to avoid messing up the matter, and copying all corresponding contents of the liveCD at step 16, and tried the "lilo -M /dev/sda" command when it failed at the first time.

The boot failure message is " Could not find kernel image: linux" and a prompt for further command "boot:"

[quote="pcos08"]Im going to work on this and PM me or e-mail me so we can work on this together that way others who may find this useful can put this to good use as well.


Your promptness always impress.

[quote="simonwong"][quote="pcos08"]Im going to work on this and PM me or e-mail me so we can work on this together that way others who may find this useful can put this to good use as well.

Let me first declare that I am just an ultimate end user and no linux geek of any level. So I can just hope my observation can help in one way or other.

It's intriguing to note that the flash disk tends to boot ignoring the contents of the isolinux.cfg under the "isolinux" folder which points the kernel image to /casper/vmlinuz, but tries to find another image referenced "linux", and prompts for the path of the kernel:

"Could not find kernel image: linux"
"boot:"

On being supplied with the path "/casper/vmlinuz", the system booting process begins and stops at:

"(ref. code lines like 60.8.25.281 omitted) VFS: cannot open device "<NULL>" or unkonwn -block(8,3)

(code 60..) please append a correct "root=", boot option; here are the available partitions

(code 60..) kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block"

Does it seem that the system boots making reference to another isolinux.cfg file that preempts that for PC/OS?

simonwong wrote:

pcos08 wrote:Im going to work on this and PM me or e-mail me so we can work on this together that way others who may find this useful can put this to good use as well.


Your promptness always impresses.

One step forward, but a little.

Since syslinux is asking for boot instructions, I copied all lines from the default in the isolinux.cfg and carriage returned. Then boot messages verbosely "splashed" until the familiar desktop appeared. (I skipped the "quiet splash" option to save me typing.)

Now the hint pinpoints on the syslinux-isolinux.cfg problem (?). Anyone?

simonwong wrote:

simonwong wrote:

pcos08 wrote:Im going to work on this and PM me or e-mail me so we can work on this together that way others who may find this useful can put this to good use as well.


Your promptness always impresses.

One step forward, but a little.

Since syslinux is asking for boot instructions, I copied all lines from the default in the isolinux.cfg and carriage returned. Then boot messages verbosely "splashed" until the familiar desktop appeared. (I skipped the "quiet splash" option to save me typing.)

Now the hint pinpoints on the syslinux-isolinux.cfg problem (?). Anyone?

Believe it or not, that actually helps a bit. I hadnt forgot about you at all, I have been working on v2 and this at the same time. v2 almost is perfect when running from a USB key, the only problem being GRUB, GRUB for some reason, even if you point to the USB drive immediately wants to install to the first hard drive. Send me a copy of your isolinux.cfg file, e-mail it or just post it.

Now the hint pinpoints on the syslinux-isolinux.cfg problem (?). Anyone?[/quote]

Believe it or not, that actually helps a bit. I hadnt forgot about you at all, I have been working on v2 and this at the same time. v2 almost is perfect when running from a USB key, the only problem being GRUB, GRUB for some reason, even if you point to the USB drive immediately wants to install to the first hard drive. Send me a copy of your isolinux.cfg file, e-mail it or just post it.[/quote]


Done. What I can not understand is that the method outlined in pendrivelinux should work for PC/OS, because basically I just manually edited PC/OS in the way what pendrivelinux usually does it all for users through downloading a replacement syslinux.cfg file.

The key point is, the folder "isolinux" is for liveCD and syslinux will try to find syslinux.cfg at root. So just relocate the files within "isolinux" to the root and rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg.

And I can not wait to post in the "sugestion" is, since Fedora has pioneered the USB flash installation by making available an USB flash creator which I witnessed has greatly boosted its target users from the "read" statistics of one site, will it be a welcomed noise for a similar installer.

Links:

https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo

Download and uzip the file and follow directions in the 'howto.txt' file
Make sure you follow ALL DIRECTIONS.

Thanks go to the Ubuntu Aspire One team.

http://www.pc-os.org/liveUSB.zip

Hi,

I just installed this new release on a usb stick ... an I'm impressed. I used the
install directions from the link and replaced the Ubuntu 8.0.4 ... with the new
release.

I'm booting off the usb drive ... So, I'm impressed with this distro ... I'm
looking forward to future releases ...

facing the same prob.. me an end.. new to linux..
when it failed to load the kernel image i pointed to the vmlinuz file.. started booting , but then stopped and showed

code 60..) please append a correct "root=", boot option; here are the available partitions

(code 60..) kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block"

am tryin to boot from my usb using fedora's live usb creator.. dont have an isolinux folder in the bootable usb.. hav the syslinux folder.. seems from the problem mentioned here that the syslinux.cfg file is messed .. can anyone send me a modified syslinux.cfg file.. am tryin to install pclos gnome 2009..