UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

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UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

#1 Post by Victor Chew » Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:44 pm

New release 0.2.3b is now available: https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ubcdlive.html

Changelog:

- Replaced fbautostart with shell script in .icewm/startup.
- Added systester V1.5.1.
- Added LXTerminal icon to desktop.
- Added gnome-disk-utility for storage device management and benchmarking.
- Make SpaceFM interface single-click instead of double-click.

Build script: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download/build023b.txz

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

#2 Post by ady » Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:59 pm

FWIW, I attached the ISO image to a VM and used it as boot device. I am unable to see the applications menu (what in a Windows OS is known as "the start menu"). When clicking on the menu button / icon, a very minimal rectangle (almost a horizontal line) can be seen, but no action can be actually performed on such small area.

In other words, the content of the applications / programs menu cannot be read by the user (or at least by me in this case) in a VM.

When clicking on the desktop with the right button, the context menu is seen correctly.

I tried changing the screen resolution (from the icon located on the desktop of UBCDLive), but I cannot see the content of the apps menu anyway (I have not checked whether changing the screen resolution in UBCDLive actually changed anything else).

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

#3 Post by Victor Chew » Mon Jun 22, 2015 3:47 am

Which VM are you using?

Just verified with VMWare V6.0.6 without any issues.

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

#4 Post by ady » Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:20 am

This time I tested with VMware Player 6.0.3, and with VirtualBox 4.2.24. The behavior I described can be seen in both.

In both cases I used low resources for the guest (e.g. screen resolution up to 1024x768 or lower, 384 MiB RAM being shared for video too).

Using the "failsafe" boot menu doesn't change the resulting behavior in these VMs.

I can reproduce the same behavior with prior versions of UBCDLive.

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

#5 Post by Victor Chew » Mon Jun 22, 2015 3:46 pm

There can't be that much difference between VMWare V6.0.3 and V6.0.6...

Here's my VM config:

Image

Also tested on an old Inspiron laptop (boot via USB stick) with no issue as well.

Now downloading latest version of VirtualBox to try...

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

#6 Post by ady » Tue Jun 23, 2015 3:31 am

Notable differences; I am testing:

_ with a low-end RAM value.
_ with a low-end screen resolution value.
_ with IDE/PATA (booting from virtual cd-rom, either with or without a HDD image attached).
_ with no sound, no USB and no network.
_ on a 32-bit host.

Please also note that I am _not_ using the latest VirtualBox version (nor the latest branch either).

I don't know whether this test is worth much attention. I just wanted to share it, in case someone else experiences the same behavior, or in case it affects low-end / old real hardware.

FWIW, I usually test UBCD (classic, not Live) in similar conditions (low resources VMs).

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.0b available for download

#7 Post by marmol » Sat Jul 04, 2015 4:05 am

Hello, How I can expand the capacity of "persistence"? Can this be done?

Thank you in advance and congratulations for this great tool.

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.0b available for download

#8 Post by Victor Chew » Sun Jul 05, 2015 12:44 am

It's quite easy actually if you have any version of Debian or Ubuntu installed.

Reference: http://live.debian.net/manual/1.x/html/persistence.html

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cd /media/disk (change directory to your USB drive; actual path may vary)
rm -f persistence* (remove the old persistence file)
dd if=/dev/null of=persistence bs=1G seek=1
mkfs.ext2 -F persistence
Obviously you need to change the "seek=1" parameter to the desired size eg. 2 for 2gig, 4 for 4gig etc.

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

#9 Post by marmol » Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:17 am

Thank you for responding Victor Chew.

I have configurations, data and installed programs in the original partition. I want to avoid losing:

I could create a new "persistent" partition larger capacity (3 or 4 G, for example) without deleting the original 1G?
And then clone the original in the new?
I have a debian installed, but I'm not a power user.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

#10 Post by Victor Chew » Sun Jul 12, 2015 5:05 am

"installed programs"?! What's that doing in a live rescue CD? :shock:

Anyway, I think creating a new partition and cloning old to new should work.

But as usual, make backups so that you can revert if anything goes wrong.

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

#11 Post by marmol » Sun Jul 12, 2015 1:55 pm

Victor Chew wrote:"installed programs"?! What's that doing in a live rescue CD?
I use a flash drive.
I searched and added repositories and "apt-get update".
I then used "apt-get install aptitude" and "aptitude install iceweasel" or "aptitude install ddrescue-gui" (for example).
And it works. He is persistent. But 1G appears low...Neither do I know how to place programs in the Start menu.

I try to create a new partition "persistence-2".
And clone or copy the "persistence".
I do not know yet how, but I'll try.

Thank you very much Victor Chew.

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

#12 Post by Sukid » Wed Dec 16, 2015 9:23 pm

Just throwing this in. You might want to encorporate Shim in order to support both UEFI and Secure Boot. It's been around since 2012 and I don't know if this was already something you guys considered, but it's worth a look if not.

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

#13 Post by Allebone » Wed Feb 24, 2016 3:22 am

Hello,

Thank you for starting this tool.

I hope I can provide some feedback for the tool as I have a special use case that this distro cannot fulfil.

Sometimes I need to clone from a larger drive to a smaller one (eg: for SSD replacement). In this case clonezilla cannot be used, but you can shrink and copy the partition using Gparted included.

After doing this the only thing to repair is the bootloader. On parted magic one is included, however there is not boot loader repair I can find on UBCD live. As a result I have to use another method to restore this.

As a suggestion, could boot repair be included? This tool allows me to reinstall GRUB onto a copied/"cloned" disk that was cloned using gparted.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

This would allow the tool to cover these cases where clonezilla cannot be used to do the clone.

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Re: UBCD Live V0.2.3b available for download

#14 Post by Sennator » Sun Feb 12, 2017 3:12 am

Hello,

i've been trying (struggling) to get UBCD Live v0.23 integrated with UltimateBootStick / GRUB4DOS. Finally i got it working, so i want to share my resolution...

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title UBCD Live 0.23
find --set-root /ubcdlive023b.iso
map /ubcdlive023b.iso (0xff) || map --mem /ubcdlive023b.iso (0xff)
map --hook
root (0xff)
kernel (0xff)/live/vmlinuz boot=live config username=root vga=normal findiso=/ubcdlive023b.iso
initrd (0xff)/live/initrd.img
With these lines added to your (menu).lst file, UBCD Live should be able to boot directly from the ISO file located in the root directory of your flash drive. I suppose this works with any GRUB4DOS bootable device.

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