UBCD4Win Forums > PartedMagic v3.0

Jotnar

Jul 25 2008, 11:17 AM

http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMagic.php

Changelog:

QUOTE

2008-7-25

Parted Magic 3.0

* Added a bunch of firmware and fixed udev to see it. Many
new hard disks and wireless cards should be found now. This
was also causing some computers to "hang" at boot time.
* Added a basic wireless detection system to pmagic_net.
* Updated to Firefox-3.0. Updates should work now too.
* Removed busybox loadkeys for the real loadkeys. Added all
keymaps from the kbd package instead. I hope this fixes the
broken keymaps.
* Updated to glibc-2.7.
* Updated to lftp-3.7.2.
* Updated to rsync-3.0.3.
* Removed "Live" option so we don't have to use squashfs-lzma
drivers. I'm making a pmagic.7z archive and extracting it into
/usr instead. This allows for free use of any vanilla kernel as
long as you have your chip set and cdrom/usb drivers built into
your kernel. You need a minimum of 256MB of RAM now.
* Updated to linux-2.6.26.
* Updated to pcmanfm-0.5.0.
* Added 'reboot' and 'local boot' to the LiveCD isolinux menu and
'reboot' to the LiveUSB syslinux menu.
* Updated to udev-124.
* Updated to module-init-tools-3.4.
* Updated to lshw-B.02.13 with updated USB and PCI ids.
* Updated to usbutils-0.73.
* Recompiled libusb-0.1.12.
* Removed dropbear.
* Added openssh-5.0p1.
* Added openssl-0.9.8g.
* Updated to pciutils-3.0.0.
* Fixed SATA CDROM detection.
* sftp works again.
* Updated to hdparm-8.9.
* Updated to smartmontools-5.38. I'm running the daemon by
default now. You can disable it with 'nosmart' at the boot prompt.
* Added fusesmb, smbnetfs, curlftpfs, and sshfs-fuse.
* Added xchat-2.8.6.
* Patched GRUB to support 256byte inode in Ext3 filesystems.
* Updated to ntfs-3g-1.2712.
* Updated to busybox-1.11.1.
* Updated to e2fsprogs-1.41.0.
* setxkbmap actually works now.
* Removed the multiboot option because cdroms are being detected
differently now and this is no longer needed.
* Added memtest.
* Removed Thunar and emelfm2. (only pcmanfm and mc remain)
* Replaced the xfwm4 with openbox.
* Added a network monitor plug-in to the panel.
* Removed cdrecord and dvd+rw-tools. Use cdrskin or xfburn instead.
* Added a sleep= option to the syslinux menus. This allows you to
delay finding the CD/USB for how ever many seconds you need.
udevtrigger is ran again after this delay. May stop slow SATA
or USB devices from being missed.
* Updated to xfburn-0.3.1.
* Updated to gparted-0.3.8.
* Added clipboard-daemon.
* Added HAL and dbus. Recompiled a bunch of stuff to use them.
* xfdesktop is managing the desktop again until PCMan supports
HAL plugging for desktop icons like CDROMs and USB.
* Updated to xorg-server-1.4.2.
* Added madwifi drivers.
* Added more firmware for Broadcom wireless controllers.
* / is fully writable now.
* Parted Magic now has a "save session" option in the panel and
in the shutdown menu. It basically creates a pmodule of /root and
saves it back to the Parted Magic LiveUSB. /root will automatically
be restored on the next boot. ONLY USB VERSION.
* Removed Terminal and replaced it with ROXTerm-1.12.2.
* Added dc3dd-6.9.91.
* Added FireFTP extension to Firefox. This is a very nice graphical
ftp program.
* The Parted Magic iso can now be directly booted with grub4dos.
* Added a grub4dos version of the LiveCD.
* The LiveUSB can use grub4dos or syslinux. Just run the same old
basic commands for the mbr and the rest has been taken care of.
* Updated to isomaster-1.3.2.
* Updated to pv-1.1.4.
* Updated to syslinux-3.70.
* Updated to file-4.25.
* Updated to gpicview-0.1.9.
* Added "real" split command to support -d option.
* Added udpcast for Linux.
* Added b43-fwcutter.
* wpa_supplicant-0.5.10.
* Added libnotify-0.4.4.
* Added libsexy-0.1.11.
* Added notification-daemon-xfce-0.3.7.

Cheers

savasten

Aug 2 2008, 01:15 PM

Have you figured out how to add it to UBCD4Win?

Thank You

Keith

Rootman

Aug 8 2008, 07:25 AM

Here's what I have so far. The pmagic directory and all it's contents from the iso are dropped into a folder named "files".

Partedmagic.inf

CODE

[Version]
Signature="$Windows NT$"

[PEBuilder]
Name="790 PartEd Magic 3.0"
Enable=1
Help=

[WinntDirectories]
a="pmagic",2
b="pmagic\pmodules",2
c="files\pmodules\scripts",2

[SourceDisksFiles]

[SourceDisksFolders]
Files=a
Files\pmodules=b
files\pmodules\scripts=c

Boot menu entry that is added to bcdw.ini - all in one line

CODE

\pmagic\ISOLINUX.BIN; Parted Magic 3.0;;/pmagic/bzImage initrd=/pmagic/initrd root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc keymap=us livecd vga=791 sleep=0 noapic quiet toram ramdisk_size=25000

Rootman

Aug 8 2008, 08:33 AM

I should of mentioned that the above loads but it stalls for 2 minutes and I get an error:

CODE

Splashy ERROR: TImeout (120 sec) occpoured while waiting for a message on the Splashy socket

Rootman

Aug 8 2008, 09:55 AM

Seems that this only happens with VMWare reading an ISO, I wrote it to disk and it runs fine.

Jotnar

Aug 8 2008, 11:15 PM

There are some issues getting this version to work under VM software but the latest development version should have a new boot menu entry for testing with VMs. It will work on a real machine though, just like Rootman mentioned.

Cheers

Madz

Sep 3 2008, 04:40 AM

Sorry guys I'm pretty new to this, but this isn't working for me. I've copied Rootman's inf file and I've extracted the pmagic folder out of the iso and put it in the files folder. So far so good, but I'm getting this error when building:

Cannot find folder: files\pmodules\scripts

I kind of assumed this should be pmagic\pmodules\scripts, so I changed this line in the INF file. It then built okay, but when I boot the CD and pick the boot menu item in a dos window it prompts me for password:

I have no idea what this would be and something seems wrong as if I boot the pmagic v3 ISO directly I don't get asked for any password.

Any ideas? Did I do the right thing in the change I made to the INF file?

cdob

Sep 3 2008, 09:27 AM

QUOTE (Madz @ Sep 3 2008, 05:40 AM)

So far so good, but I'm getting this error when building:

Cannot find folder: files\pmodules\scripts

Idea was to create a folder files first

QUOTE (rootman)

The pmagic directory and all it's contents from the iso are dropped into a folder named "files".

QUOTE

but when I boot the CD and pick the boot menu item in a dos window it prompts me for password:

Add a empty line to bcdw.ini.

tussi4711

Oct 11 2008, 08:21 PM

hi all,

first of all I'm new in this board and I thank you all for helping.

Now my problem:

I copied all files and modified ini/inf as advised but I didn't get pmagic running, just a couple of errors when I trie to start pmagic from the ubce4w menu.

Error: cannot load file (code: 5555h):

when I take a look to the generate file structure I cannot see any pmagic file/directory, thus the ini/inf are wrong.

Is there anybody willing to serve a modified plugin that is running pmagic 3.0.
That would make it fast and easy to get it running. I tried and didn't get it since 2 days.

TIA

tussi4711

cdob

Oct 12 2008, 04:05 AM

QUOTE (tussi4711 @ Oct 11 2008, 08:21 PM)

I copied all files and modified ini/inf as advised but I didn't get pmagic running

Which files did you copy?

Do you copy files to:
plugin\Multiboot-003\pmagic\files\isolinux.bin
plugin\Multiboot-003\pmagic\files\bzImage
plugin\Multiboot-003\pmagic\files\initrd
plugin\Multiboot-003\pmagic\files\pmodules\pmagic.7z
That's the most importand files. Copy all files from Parted Magic.