Ultimate Boot CD

Endgame here: sudo -s mkdir IT_PROJECTS cd IT_PROJECTS mkdir syslinux-3.86 cd ~ extracted syslinux-3.86 to ~/IT_PROJECTS/syslinux-3.86 ./IT_PROJECTS/syslinux-3.86/linux/syslinux /dev/sda1 I ended up putting syslinux in the root directory of sda1 because it was having issues with -d option. Don't kno...

This post was messed. Next post is the real deal. Remove if you wish. I would like to keep this thread as a "how to" kinda thing for linux users to build this thing as there is no documentation on it. I looked for 3 days before this thread started.

I stand corrected on one point. My pendrive has UBCD 5.02 on it. Would that make a huge difference? The other question i then have is, how would I compile syslinux onto just that drive sda1? Have a theory about compiling in that directory but have no supporting evidence. I do not want to change sysl...

Not that im disputing the validity of your statement but why would unetbootin be able to put it on a flash drive using syslinux 3.6 and it be able to boot? What's the difference?

I used syslinux 3.63 and UBCD 5.03. Syslinux 3.63 is the version used by Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

I want to build a simple tech. station for my computer shop. I found a page thru google about doing this with windows and tried it and it failed. I have several computers in the shop running Linux and decided to try it that way. From terminal i put syslinux on the HD in question using syslinux -f /d...