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Getting Started - Live CD (v0.8.x)
README.live-cd ============================================================================= __ __ \ \/ /___ __ __ ___ ___ ___ \ // _ \\ \/ /,-_ |/ _ |/ -_) \/ \___/ \ / \___,\_ |\___| _/_/ _'_| { V o y a g e } - L i n u x < http://linux.voyage.hk > ============================================================================== This README.live-cd provide information on how to install Voyage Linux from the Live CD. ============================================================================== Installing Voyage Linux to a hard disk from Live CD ============================================================================== Afte booting the Live CD, login as root (password: voyage) 1. Create distribution directory for installation # mkdir /tmp/root # mount -o loop /live/image/live/filesystem.squashfs /tmp/root # cd /tmp/root 2. Make a mount point for installation disk # mkdir /tmp/cf 3. Format target disk device # /usr/local/sbin/format-cf.sh /dev/hda This will create /dev/hda1 ext2 partition on /dev/hda disk device. ** Note that this operation is very dangerous since it will erase your disk! Make sure what you are doing and must do it right! 4. Start voyage.update installation script # /usr/local/sbin/voyage.update Following the instruction to select /tmp/root as distribution directory, and /tmp/cf as mount point. After the installation complete, simple reboot the board and Voyage will be started! There are some additional packages installed for PXE and NFS server. After starting Voyage, you can safely remove them by: # remountrw # apt-get remove syslinux atftpd nfs-kernel-server \ bzip2 sg3-utils minicom After all, remove the last line in /etc/dnsmasq.more.conf: conf-file=/etc/dnsmasq.pxe.conf ============================================================================== Installing to a Thumb-drive or Disk-constraint system (net4826) ============================================================================== Follow the instruction to install Voyage Linux to a ext2 partition with root squashfs filesystem like the Live CD format. This is done by extlinux. 1. As usual, create mount point for the installation disk and format it # mkdir /tmp/cf # /usr/local/sbin/format-cf.sh /dev/hda This will create /dev/hda1 ext2 partition on /dev/hda disk device. ** Note that this operation is very dangerous since it will erase your disk! Make sure what you are doing and must do it right! 2. Mount the disk and copy CD content to disk device # mount /dev/hda1 /tmp/cf # rsync -aHx /live/image/* /tmp/cf 3. Create extlinux.conf and install extlinux # cp /tmp/cf/isolinux/isolinux.cfg /tmp/cf/isolinux/extlinux.conf # extlinux -i /tmp/cf/isolinux 4. Update master boot record for disk device # cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/hda After all, reboot! There are some notes when using this installation method: a. You will have a read-only squashfs root filesystem on a CF that consumes just 36MB and you cannot modify the rootfs. b. By default, all changes made to the system reside on tmpfs. i.e. Changes are lost after reboot. You can preserve the changes by creating another partition and labeled it as "casper-rw", or create a loopback file called "casper-rw" at / (see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDPersistence: this is not tested and need more exploration) c. You will still be able to boot Live CD again after the installation. But once the CD is booted, the installed disk with be mounted as rootfs and you are unable to umount it. To get around this, you need to specify the following command at boot prompt (assume CD-ROM device is /dev/hdc): linux bootfrom=/dev/hdc
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