Linux and UBCD4WIN

[mike havens]

I was looking at the root directory of the cd and notice two intriguing
directories. The first is isolinux and the second is syslinux. Gee.... if I
am not mistaken that makes this discussion quite the topical ointment. Pray
tell, if you may, how does one use linux in UBCD4Win?

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Charles Jones <
charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:

>  You will come across 2 versions of it.  One is a "creator" that lets you
> build your own bootable disc. The other is just an .iso file that was
> already created by someone else, which is technically not legal due to M$
> licensing, but that is the one I used and frankly in an emergency situation
> I did not care about being legal for the 3 hours that I used it for. If
> windows didn't suck so much I wouldn't have gotten so thoroughly infected
> and I wouldn't need just a specialized boot disk to clean it...but I digress
> :)
>
>
>
> mike havens wrote:
>
> Thanks for letting me know about this program. I was s=wondering though: it
> seems that this was made to be installed. Is that so?
>
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:51 PM, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> yes... I will do this this way. thanks for the thrashing! lol
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Having this Windows ramdisk on a Flash disk, you MUST have copied it
>>> correctly - it's going to need a partition of it's own (RAMDISKs are like
>>> boot floppies); next you will need a BIOS that allows you to specify a USB
>>> device in boot order.  This is a complex process in itself.
>>>
>>> I can see you are spoiled by Nix?  Under Linux you can download any iso
>>> and loop mount it, then copy it in total to a new drive, edit it and reburn
>>> it.
>>>
>>> In this way, one can trivially change any distro you provide for an
>>> InstallFest, or as a gift for a new "trainee".
>>>
>>> You can brand your own installs, script additional features or process
>>> startups (tunnels), preconfigure example files (hosts, sshd_config [certain
>>> characters in files {alt255 on keypad} will keep any line from running while
>>> it appears in the config file], recompile top/ls/df to do whatever you might
>>> like, or simply run a script to add a rootkit for instance.
>>>
>>> I suggest that your repair ramdisk be made following the instructions -
>>> *just use a CD*.
>>>
>>> obnosis.com <http://www.obnosis.com/> | wiki.obnosis.com| (503)754-4452
>>> PLUG <http://http//plug.phoenix.az.us> HACKFESTS <http://uat.edu/> 2nd
>>> Saturday Each Month at Noon - 3PM
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:46:57 -0500
>>> Subject: Re: UBCD4WIN
>>> From: bmike1 at gmail.com
>>> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>>
>>> is this not possible?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:46 PM, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was hoping that what i could do is drag-n-drop the drive onto an icon
>>> and  not need to burn a cd. That way I could update it at home nd bring the
>>> flash-drive to the job.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Charles Jones <
>>> charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>  mike havens wrote:
>>> > I downloaded it and am unpacking it now. I am, however, unclear as to
>>> > where to get updates and how to install them into the program. What I
>>> > am going to do is put it onto a flash drive and just update the virus
>>> > info!
>>>
>>>  Mike,
>>>
>>> Once you boot the disc (it takes a frighteningly long time to boot up
>>> windows from a super-compressed CD), it will ask you first which shell
>>> to launch, the default one is fine.  Then it will ask if you want to
>>> bring up the network interfaces. choose yes and just accept the defaults
>>> (assuming DHCP).  Then once you are online you can for instance launch
>>> SpyBot Search & Destroy (one of the AV tools), and use the built-in
>>> update function.  It will connect to their server and download the
>>> updates (to the RAMDISK) and then restart (spybot S&D restarts). You can
>>> then do a scan with the newest updates.
>>>
>>> You can also use the web browser, etc, if you want to download install
>>> your own program (if its small enough to fit in the ramdisk).
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