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Wasted A Day on BCDW 2.0


jetman

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I spent a day and a half masterbating w/ BCDW 2.0 and need to find an alternative. 1st, the docs are from 1.50z and are out-of-sync. Once I finally figured that out, I eventually got a simple menu w/ BartPE and **** Small Linux (DSL) 3.0 working. Had to install DSL on the menu from it's ISO, which would've been cool, except when I tried to wrap up the project by adding a couple of other small Linuxes, using exactly the same procedure, they wouldn't work !

I'm hoping someone can suggest an alternative that they've used. All I want is something flexible w/ decent documentation. The time killer is Googling for web pages that explain the quirks of the pkg, instead simply reading the program's docs. A nice graphical menu backdrop and scripting would be nice, but are both optional.

TIA....Jet

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is this the program you are refering too?

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

it is based on bartspe. pretty straight forward if you have ever used barts.

good places for help are:

http://www.911cd.net/forums/

http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/

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is this the program you are refering too?

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

it is based on bartspe. pretty straight forward if you have ever used barts.

good places for help are:

http://www.911cd.net/forums/

http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/

Thanx, but you've misunderstood. I already have a BartPE disc. Been making those for over two yeas. I'm trying to make a better tool disc by coming up w/ a multi-boot disc. Yeah, I'd like something similar to UBCD4W, to cook up a multi-boot disc, but I'll settle for anything that has decent docs and has an endorsement from someone on the forum who's done this already....Jet

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You might want to look at Cdshell or syslinux. Also a faq for bcdw 2.0 is here, it'll perhaps help you.

Allen: This is probably never going to work the way I'd like it to, regardless of the pkg one uses. SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX is in the lead for the moment, but that could change. When I started this topic, I was planning on three different Linuxes, in addition to BartPE and a couple of WinXP installers. But that's not going to happen. I wish I had time to write the pkg I want.

Just for grins, this is how close I've gotten:

\i386\setupldr.bin			   ;  Boot BartPE
/boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin ; Boot DSL 3.0
/isolinux/isolinux.bin ; Boot Trinity Rescue Kit

[Options]
;;;; Password = secret -or- md5 hash value
Logo = \bcdw\logo.gif
Font = \bcdw\fonts\ibmpc.fnt
CharSet = \bcdw\charset\cp437.cpf

Yes ! I know that I have more than one copy of ISOLINUX on the system, but what you see above is (literally) the twentieth iteration of this script. This isn't the way that it started out. Anyway, BartPE works fine and has always worked. Both TRK and DSL boot, but TRK boots broken (some of the files don't load and it never arrives at the normal cmd prompt.) My mission was to have a central menu, which would provide links to the native menus for DSL and TRK and boot BartPE or XP setup directly. Oh yeah, and maybe display a graphic splash screen.

Not going to happen....Jet

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