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Author: mike havens
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Linux and UBCD4WIN
Cool-beans.... If you go into the password feature of UBCD it loads busybox
and you have a linux distro that will crack your password! Now I don't have
to ask about that.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:08 AM, mike havens <> wrote:

> 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 <
> > 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*.
>>>>
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>>>> PLUG <http://http//plug.phoenix.az.us> HACKFESTS <http://uat.edu/> 2nd
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>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:46:57 -0500
>>>> Subject: Re: UBCD4WIN
>>>> From:
>>>> To:
>>>>
>>>> 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 <
>>>> > 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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