Public bug reported:
Dear All,
This post is intented for those who are interested in using Ubuntu live
CD without installing it and without burning image into a CD. You will
also need some boot loader, (grub for dos is nice), and follow the
instructions to boot (mainly select kernel and initrd image).
I've been hacking around casper bootscripts for booting kubuntu from
hard disk, without installing, just copying casper folder form CD to
root folder of my hard drive partition (ie C:\casper), which is ntfs
type.
Firstly, in /casper/initrd.gz module ntfs.ko is missing, Adding it is
rather easy, and only increases image in 100KB. Just doing this worked
for me till Tribe 4.
Secondly, when trying to "poor man" boot with Tribe 5, I got a message about
saying FUSE kernel module was missing, after adding it to initrd.gz and booting
again I got this error message:
"fuse mount point creation failed"
"mount: invalid option -i"
Hacking a bit around and googling, I found that the busybox version used
in Tribe 5 boot image needs FUSE to mount ntfs and that mount doesn't
allows -i option. Anyway, /bin/mount is able to mount ntfs partitions
(read only), enough for allowing poor man booting. The work around for
this to work is easy:
1. Add ntfs.ko module
2. Do not and FUSE module (it is not needed)
3. Modify /scripts/casper, in function "check_dev ()", about line 580
fstype=$(get_fstype "${devname}")
if is_supported_fs ${fstype}; then
>>>> NEW >>>>
if [ "x$fstype" = "xntfs" ]; then
/bin/mount -t ${fstype} -o ro,umask=000 "${devname}" $mountpoint ||
continue
else
<<<<
mount -t ${fstype} -o ro "${devname}" $mountpoint || continue
>>>> NEW >>>>
fi
<<<<
This worked for me, and suppose will work for others.
Hope you find this hacking usefull....
For me it will be very nice if casper/ubuntu team will add this hacks to
final live CD, so it will be easier for others to have a "poor man"
install.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Poor man install on ntfs Gutsy Gibbon (Tribe 5)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135029
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