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Time: 14:10:30 Date: Tue 24 Nov 2009
Live Linux Systems
Try out a preconfigured system with BSU. The following images are built with
BSU, Scilab, Xfig, Blas, Lapack, and GSL already installed. Also includes web browsers, internet and other software. A test data file is in the Examples directory, and is linked to other directories for convenience.
The window manager is FluxBox. The operating system is
Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Boot from the CD or USB.
Note: It does not matter what your normal operating system is (Linux, Mac, Microsoft, etc),
if you can boot from a CD or USB device, you can run this live system.
BE SURE TO SET YOUR BIOS BOOT PRIORITY to have the hard
drive BOOT AFTER the CD or USB. Otherwise, you won't be able to boot the Live system.
To boot the system, at the Iso-Linux boot window type:
live toram vga=788
and press enter. The toram option will load the operating system into
RAM, freeing up the boot device for different media while the live system is running.
The vga=788 is optional, and invokes the frame buffer
to give a more pleasing boot up listing. If you have a problem using the frame buffer,
don't use the vga=788 option.
To start the window manager, type:
startx
You will have an x-terminal and clock. Try working with the example data.
The system runs entirely in RAM, and does not use your hard drives. Recommended for systems with at least 1GB of RAM which will give you several hundred MB on the virtual RAM disk to experiment. When you shut down, all changes are lost.
To shutdown the system, type:
sudo shutdown -h now
At some point, you will be asked to remove the boot media and press enter to finish the shutdown. If you have already removed the media because you invoked the toram option, it is OK. Just press enter to complete the shutdown.
Choose an image for the boot device desired from the directory below:
Live-fluxbox-04072009.iso Bootable CD image Live-fluxbox-04072009.img Bootable USB imageLive Image Directory
Burning a CD Image
wodim -dao -v -eject speed=10
dev=/dev/cdrom Live-fluxbox-04072009.iso
Windows and Mac users have programs for this as well.
Copying the USB Image
To copy the image to a USB drive ("thumb" drive, "memory stick", etc.), use a command similar to the following from
a Linux xterm:
dd if=Live-fluxbox-04072009.img of=/dev/sdc
WARNING: Back up any files on your USB device before you do the dd command. Otherwise, they WILL NOT BE RECOVERABLE!
NOTE: The actual command you use will require the correct output device
to be specified!
The following recommendation comes from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive
ls -la /dev/disk/by-id/usb-*
Look for new lines that appear after you insert the USB device.
Burn image to a CD using your favorite tool (In linux, GUI based k3b or perhaps command line wodim). For example, from the command line:
In the above example, the device is /dev/sdc. Note also, no partition number is
used (like /dev/sdc1).
Determining the USB Device
On Linux systems running udev you can use a command like this,
before and then after plugging in your USB device:
EXAMPLE:
Before inserting the USB:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-07-05 12:24 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic-_Multi-Card_20060413092100000-0:0 -> ../../sdb
Another easy approach is to use the
dmesg command. The end of the listing output to
the screen will indicate what device to use. For example,
After inserting the USB:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-07-05 12:24 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic-_Multi-Card_20060413092100000-0:0 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-07-05 14:54 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-VBTM_Store_n_go_0CB15C60435228C1-0:0 -> ../../sdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-05 14:54 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-VBTM_Store_n_go_0CB15C60435228C1-0:0-part1 -> ../../sdc1
[ 3769.165494] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 3769.165498] sdc: sdc1
[ 3769.167117] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 3769.167154] sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
Last Revised 11 Oct 2009