USB Essential tools by Raymii.org
Note: Because of the Ramhost Crash the torrent is dead. If you have a copy, please seed and contact me. Thanks.
First off all, a Happy new year to you! It has been a while since I updated the website, but thats because I'm busy with another project. I cannot tell you about that because it is not finished yet.
But in the meantime at work we use a USB stick to image PC's, and it has some other tools on it like memtest.
I was not happy with it because there was no Linux on it. Actually I just wanted Ultimate Boot CD on it, but then I thought, why not some other Linux :D.
And so I started working. The USB boots up into some kind of windows 98 boot menu. As I only know grub (for the bootloaders) i had to figure it out.
I googled a bit and then I found out about grub4dos. and after a bit of tweaking on old years evening I could load grub from the win98 boot menu and in grub I could boot from the ISO of UBCD.
Then I tried puppy. That did not work. After that I tried Mint. That also did not work.
After reading the Wiki I found out that the ISO mounting does not work with every Linux distro. But I did not stop tweaking.
With some help of pendrivelinux and some tweaking it worked.
Now I had the diagnostic USB stick together with: Linux Mint, Slitaz, Tiny Core, UBCD and boot.kernel.org.
While I was chatting to a friend he said: why don't you share it? I said, there is propertairy software on the win98 part...
He said: well, then just share your homemade part.
And thats just what I will do here.
I Proudly present my 2010 gift to you all:
Raymii's USB Essentials v0.1
Featuring:
- Easy Auto Installer
- Linux Mint 8
- Slitaz 2 cooking
- Tiny Core 2.7
- gPXE: Boot.kernel.org
- BCDL CD Booter
- Windows NT/9x/ME/2k/XP/Vista/7 Loaders
Download (Torrent)
(If someone wants to mirror the 800MB file please contact me).
The Installer is for Windows (NSIS). Linux instructions will follow soon. (Shouldn't be to hard, install syslinux, copy the grub files and get the ISO's.)
Many thanks to: pendrivelinux.com, Linux Mint, Slitaz GNU/Linux, Tiny Core Linux, Ultimate Boot CD, BCDL and grub4dos.
Note: Make sure you backup all the stuff on your USB. I am not responsible if you lose any data!
