UBCD4WIN

[mike havens]

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*.
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> 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
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>
> 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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