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 wrote: > yes... I will do this this way. thanks for the thrashing! lol > > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Lisa Kachold 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 | wiki.obnosis.com| (503)754-4452 >> PLUG HACKFESTS 2nd >> Saturday Each Month@Noon - 3PM >> >> ------------------------------ >> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:46:57 -0500 >> Subject: Re: UBCD4WIN >> From: bmike1@gmail.com >> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> >> >> is this not possible? >> >> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:46 PM, mike havens 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@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). >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> ------------------------------ >> Windows Live™ Contacts: Organize your contact list. Check it out. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: