Forums, Help Guides, FAQs, HOWTOs, LiveDistro Lists

Creating a root filesystem with rootstrap

"One day, I needed a Debian Sarge root filesystem to be used with User Mode Linux, because the official website of UML only provided Debian Woody images. This short document explains how you can create your own root filesystem and run it through UML.

In the document, host is the computer on which you're working, and the target is the system we're trying to build."

http://thomas.enix.org/HowtoRootStrap

Making an Ubuntu Live USB

"How to make a USB flash drive function as a Ubuntu (or Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu) Live CD. The base file system is ext3, it boots using extlinux and supports the same hardware as the Live CD. Instructions on how to update the Live CD and modify it's contents are also given. For the entire document /dev/sda is the USB device.

Booting from a USB device is ofter faster than from CD and USB drives are easier to carry. You should know why you want and or need this. We used Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn as our image for booting and a Gentoo system for building on."

http://edoceo.com/liber/ubuntu-live-usb

Backtrack Automated Download and Installation on USB stick using Windows

"Newbee USB INSTALLER UNDER WINDOWS

I have coded this over the past few days. A GUI for downloading and installing BT2 to a usb stick, flash card or usb hd in a way that the king of newbeez can do it so if your interested in this freeware, here is the link, feel free to ask questions, feedback welcome.....:

http://rapidshare.com/files/29047490/BT2USB4WINBETARELIZ2.rar.html Welcome to BackTrack 2 USB 4 WIN

1)What the hell is it ?"

http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php?title=Howto:_BackTrack_2.0_final_%2C_automated_download_and_installation_on_USB_Stick_from_windows

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bt2usb4win/

http://rapidshare.com/files/29047490/BT2USB4WINBETARELIZ2.rar.html

Backtrack Live Install, Dual Boot from Grub

"This is another method to create a live install of BackTrack 3 on your HD. The need for this was that an install of BT was required for a machine with only 4gb of disk space and that it also needed to be dual booted with another linux distro from grub. This is a very simple live install with no persistancy. it has been done on an eeepc."

http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php/Howto (scroll down)

Backtrack Live Install with Changes, Swap and Data Partition

"This question or a question related to part of this gets asked so many times, but people seem unable to find it where I originally posted it.

THIS TUTORIAL IS FOR BT2 BUT CAN EASILY BE ADAPTED FOR BT3

Most of this is aimed at a USB HDD but it should be obvious from this how to adapt it for a USB pendrive, stick, flash drive or whatever else you like to call them.

Ok so this is how I do a live install with changes, swap and data partitions."

http://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=7844

Make a BackTrack2 USB Stick

"NOTE: This procedure works on the IRC Addict Pre-Release BT2 and the final release, but it does not work on sidc and earlier versions

1. Open the backtrack.iso file:

Option 1. In Windows, use a program such as isobuster
Option 2. In Backtrack, mount the iso
(mount -o loop -t iso9660 yourcd.iso /mnt/iso)
Option 3. In OSX, mount the iso

2. Extract and copy the /boot and /BT folders from the iso to the USB flash stick

3. Make the USB Stick bootable: "

http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php/Howto:USB_Stick

PuppyLinux.org Puplets

"One of the great things about Puppy is how easy it is to use it as a base for your very own distro. You can install your own programs setup the themes and preferences just the way you like them then use the Remaster option to bundle it all into your very own cd iso. Imagine that, boot from your own live CD and have everything set just how you like it in less than a minute. Many people choose to share their remasters for the benefit of others, we call these versions, puplets."

http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/puplets

http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/puplets_view/feed

Puppy From Scratch

"The T2 project is a set of Bash scripts to compile a complete Linux distro from source packages.
Puppy Linux is the tiniest and cutest and easiest and the best little Linux distro there is.
Put the two together, and we have Puppy From Scratch!

If you want to create your own custom version of Puppy, you can do it in three different ways:

1. Puppy Remaster-CD script
2. Puppy Unleashed
3. Puppy-from-scratch"

http://www.puppylinux.com/pfs/

List of LiveCD Torrents

ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/calisan/2007.3/Pardus-Calisan-2007.3.iso.torrent

http://arklinux.osuosl.org/2007.1/iso/arklinux-live-2007.1.iso.torrent

http://bt.isk.kth.se:6969/torrents/einar1.0.iso.torrent?BF5BBE34CE58E63C9D5A3A22171262128632CA31

http://bttracker.kicks-ass.org/torrents/RTAI_LiveCD_0.16.torrent

http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-livecd-1.0.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-livecd-deltad-1.1.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-livecd-deltah-2.0.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/gobuntu/releases/7.10/release/gobuntu-7.10-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/gobuntu/releases/7.10/release/gobuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/edgy/knot-2/edgy-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/flight-1/dapper-live-i386.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/flight-1/dapper-live-powerpc.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/flight-2/dapper-live-i386.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/edgy/knot-1/edgy-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/herd-1/feisty-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-1/gutsy-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-1/hardy-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-1/hardy-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/edgy/knot-2/edgy-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

http://daga.dyndns.org/projects/backpack/backpack-0.3-beta.iso.torrent

http://debian.netcologne.de/kdelive/debian-kde4beta4-live-cd-amd64.iso.torrent

http://debian.netcologne.de/kdelive/debian-kde4beta4-live-cd-i386.iso.torrent

http://faunos.com/downloads/faunos-fortytwo-0.3.2/faunos-fortytwo-0.3.2-bootcd.iso.torrent

http://faunos.com/downloads/faunos-fortytwo-0.3.2/faunos-fortytwo-0.3.2-usb.img.torrent

http://free-electrons.com/torrent/kernelkit-0.4.1.iso.torrent

http://free-electrons.com/torrent/kernelkit-0.4.4.iso.torrent

http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/5.10/ubuntu-5.10-live-i386.iso.torrent

http://gpstudio.com/torrents/stux-linux-0.9.2.iso.torrent

http://grml.gwendoline.at/grml_small_0.1.iso.torrent

http://guslm.mthweb.org/MultiLinuxLive-0.1.20060330.iso.torrent

http://halo.willisburg.org/files/halo-a0_1_iso.torrent

http://isohunt.com/torrents/livecd?ihp=1&iht=-1&ihs1=6&iho1=a

http://isos.rocklinux.org/torrent.php/rockate_0.3.1_ultimate.iso.torrent

http://knoppix.alpha.co.jp/iso/accelerated/Accelerated-KNX-1.1_20060613.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=1016&name=Wolvix_Games_Edition-1.0.4.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=1335&name=SUSE-10-0-LiveDVD-Windows-Screensaver.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=2168&name=ASork-Music-Studio-0.03.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=21b0d9e9fcb62a2e857dd28146599151500cfb15&f=LFU-1.2.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=2233&name=UbuntuLite-1.1.iso.torrent (download)

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=2477&name=SAM-2006-2-preview-english.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=2854&name=saxdeskserv-1.1-b1.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=3123&name=GoboLinux-013-i686.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=3732&name=bintoo-2007.3-installCD.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=3840&name=gparted-clonezilla-1.7.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=3850&name=artistx_0.3_live_dvd_iso_03-26-2007.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=4521&name=p30x.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=4866&name=wNOP.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=4987&name=eeexubuntu-7.10.2-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=5034&name=LinguaFluxOS-LiveCD-0.2-386.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=5083&name=GoboLinux-014-i686.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=5103&name=mythtvos-2008.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=5a03ff7882d98866b222fbfea2fe8bb68247b5d2&f=ttylinux-7.0.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=600&name=wolvix-1.0.2.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=6254f6c02c80b3bc886a8f6c34e7cd776a9f79f9&f=ZMliveCD%201.22.2.1.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=659&name=GoblinX-1.2.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=970&name=Wolvix%20Desktop%20Edition%201.0.4.iso.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=b90bcc9bee69438afa515e88cc9e7feab14e1eda&f=OzOS-RC1.2-liveCD-amd64.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=fe2adfea27929aa796840244905d10c51273ea98&f=EmErgEs_MultiBOOT_ISO.torrent.torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=3106c86ae10994e150278a159687e5da50d0f059 x86

http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=f43a32f45482f85ea09ac1c8da122f10b0e3a1e3 x86_64

http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=fe2adfea27929aa796840244905d10c51273ea98

http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=1604 (torrent)

http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=1751

http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=2069

http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=2242

http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=4866

http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=627

http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=954 - download

http://livecd.debianitas.net/downloads/Elive_0.1_nibeta_nialpha.iso.torrent

http://livecd.debianitas.net/downloads/elive-0.3.iso.torrent

http://live.linux-gamers.net/lg-live-0.9.2.torrent

http://live.nufw.org/dl/nufwlive-us-v1.1.iso.torrent

http://lxnay.no-ip.org/livecd-iso/Gentoo-RR64-2.50.iso.linuxtracker.torrent

http://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/~hardwarehank/fluxbuntu/rev2/fluxbuntu-nbuild1-rev2-desktop-i386.torrent

http://nubuntu.org/nubuntu-live-i386.iso.torrent

http://overclockix.octeams.com/Overclockix3.4_3.iso.torrent

http://phantomix.ytternhagen.de/phantomix.torrent

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/taprobane/taprobane-gnu-linux-0.4.2.iso.torrent?download

http://publiclibrary.metamute.org:6969/torrent.html?info_hash=0a34c9b565e6f10c01bd98556840cc7bc3127bd2

http://publiclibrary.metamute.org:6969/torrent.html?info_hash=8790027e16d78bc7aacac910fcfc9fffc4d1ff5e

http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10/ubuntu-7.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent

http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10/ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.10/ubuntu-7.10-beta-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent

http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.10/ubuntu-7.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

http://supergamer.org/downloads/SuperGamer2.torrent

http://thinkgos.com/files/gos-live-1.0_386.torrent

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/f7-test1-livecd-i386.torrent

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-8-Test-3-Live-FEL-i686.torrent

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-9-i686-Live.torrent

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-9-x86_64-Live-KDE.torrent

http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/official-1/Zod-binary-i386.torrent

http://torrent.gnome.org/foresight-2.18.0-x86.iso.torrent

http://torrent.gnome.org/gnome-livecd-2.12-i386-en-5.iso.torrent

http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-2007-spring-free-dvd.i586.torrent

http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-2007-spring-free-dvd.x86_64.torrent

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/3665091/TorK_LiveCD_Testing_Only.3665091.TPB.torrent

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/3697102/LinuxMCE_1.1_Beta_2.3697102.TPB.torrent

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/3871171/clonezilla-sysresccd-full-mod-1.3.0.3871171.TPB.torrent

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/3965322/MythTVOS-2008.3965322.TPB.torrent

http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/torrents/KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-2005-09-23-EN.torrent

http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/torrents/KNOPPIX_V4.0.2DVD-2005-09-23-EN.torrent

http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/torrents/KNOPPIX_V4.0DVD-2005-08-16-EN.torrent

http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/torrents/KNOPPIX_V5.0.1CD-2006-06-01-EN.torrent

http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/torrents/KNOPPIX_V5.1.0CD-2006-12-30-EN.torrent

http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/torrents/KNOPPIX_V5.1.0DVD-2006-12-30-EN.torrent

http://troppix.net/download/troppix--i586-1.0.iso.torrent

http://troppix.net/download/troppix--i586-1.2.iso.torrent

http://ubuntustudio.org/files/UbuntuStudio_7.04.torrent

http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/xen/knoppix_v5.0.1_20060601_xen3.0.3.0-20061106_AC20061124+IPAFont.iso.torrent

http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.10/ubuntu-5.10-live-i386.iso.torrent

http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.10/ubuntu-5.10-preview-live-i386.iso.torrent

http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/5.10/kubuntu-5.10-preview-live-i386.iso.torrent

http://viral.media.mit.edu/releases/vidtorrent-livecd-20060516.iso (275MB)

http://web.isteve.bofh.cz/deadcd/stuff/deadcd-0.4final.iso.torrent

http://www.arklinux.org/arklinux-2006.1.iso.torrent

http://www.blagblagblag.org/torrents/liveBLAG-70000.iso.torrent

http://www.bluewhite64.com/torrents/bluewhite64-11.0-LiveCD.torrent

http://www.freetorrent.fr/download.php?id=ecd240f619879f9f11a29f0133ac624f8eca335d&f=slitaz-1.0.iso.torrent

http://www.gramps-project.org/files/lgenealogy-1.0-live-i386.iso.torrent

http://www.granular-linux.com/granular_v0.12.iso.torrent

http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/ubuntu-lite-1.0.torrent

http://www.linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=3308&name=ubuntuchristmas.iso.torrent

http://www.linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=726&name=Gentoo-RR4-2.60.4.iso.torrent

http://www.linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=1671 (torrent)

http://www.linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=627&edited=1 (torrent)

http://www.mandriva.com/out/torrents/mandriva-one-2007.0-metisse.i586.torrent

http://www.mininova.org/get/665146 (torrent)

http://www.mininova.org/get/665201 (torrent download)

http://www.mininova.org/get/805933 (AMD64 torrent)

http://www.mininova.org/get/805934 (x86 torrent)

http://www.movedigital.com/go/doktoreas/t47611/doktoreas-ominiverdi-desktop-2007.1.torrent

http://www.movedigital.com/go/doktoreas/t50015/livecd-i686-desktop-2007.0.iso.torrent

http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/tao-live-i386/torrent

http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/tao-live/i386/torrent/

http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/tao-live/i386/torrent/tao-live-5.00.torrent

http://www.nubuntu.org/nubuntu-fotp-386-alpha.iso.torrent

http://www.opengeu.intilinux.com/torrents/opengeu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

http://www.os-cillation.de/xfld-0_2-en.iso.torrent

http://www.patdouble.com/incognito-i686.iso.torrent

http://www.patdouble.com/incognitotiny-i686.iso.torrent

http://www.plandude.com/torrentinfo.php?TheTorrent=4417

http://www.remote-exploit.org/bt3b141207.iso.torrent

http://www.securedvd.org/secureDVD.iso.torrent

http://www.tlm-project.org/public/distributions/goblinx/GoblinX-2.0.iso.torrent

http://www.tlm-project.org/public/distributions/hikarunix/iso/hikarunix-0.4.iso.torrent

http://www.tlm-project.org/public/distributions/rocxshop/RxS-0.08.iso.torrent

http://www.tlm-project.org/public/distributions/slax/5.0.x/slax-5.1.0.iso.torrent

http://www.tlm-project.org/public/distributions/VideoLinux/Release/ISO/2.1-Alpha/VideoLinux-2.1-Alpha-i686.iso.torrent

http://www.tlm-project.org/torrents/llgp/llgp-0.1pre0.iso.torrent

http://www.tlm-project.org/torrents/multidistro/mdv22.iso.torrent

http://www.tlm-project.org/torrents/navynos/navynos-2004.07.iso.bz2.torrent

http://www.tuxdistro.com/download.php?id=357&name=linuxconsole1.0.2007-cd.iso.torrent

http://www.tuxdistro.com/download.php?id=689&name=artistx_0.4_kde_live_dvd.torrent

http://www.tuxdistro.com/download.php?id=690&name=artistx_0.4_gnome_live_dvd.torrent

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/scripts/va-stats/appliance-redirect.php?nid=302&target=http%3A%2F%2Ftorrent.vmware.com%2Ftorrents%2Fvoiponcd-appliance.zip.torrent

http://yalla.ynfonatic.de/media/TorLiveCD-TestingOnly.iso.torrent

What's your flavor?

"What's your flavor?

Here at 'What's your flavor?' you can find information about (almost) any *NIX flavor available.

The aim of this site is to provide a complete overview of all the UNIX, BSD, Linux operating systems and other OS'es based on these flavors.
It may even be possible (flavor permitting) to download your preferred flavor right here."

http://www.whatsyourflavor.org/

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