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@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 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 >>> >>> > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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~(-: