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[AnonVendetta]

@War10ck: You are calling @steve6375 a "nooby"? I think everyone on this forum is laughing right about now. He *CREATED* E2B, and surely knows more about it than any of us, but you are not willing to listen.

[War10ck]

NO !!!! I never told that.

you have misunderstood.

 

I'M nooby !!! saw that the previous answer of Steve was obvious but as I said on a post above :  I'm tired

Sorry if I misspoke...

And I KNOW that Steve is the creator of E2B, that's why I ask him all his questions! You only have to read the last 2 pages of the topic

 

I am willing to listen

Edited by War10ck, 03 December 2019 - 12:18 AM.

[AnonVendetta]

I have a few questions:

 

I am going to boot a Tails ISO from my iODD, install it to a USB flash drive, then make a disk image of that flash drive with RMPrepUSB. However, I plan to use persistence, so a 2nd partition will be needed, which the Tails installer creates. Can E2B boot this disk image containing multiple partitions? I think the iODD can do this on its' own, but I am not sure what file extension is needed.

 

When installing the latest beta E2B (as of last night) to a flash drive, the installer offers to create contig.iso in \_ISO\, but that file is nowhere to be found when I check for it. Maybe this is a bug?

 

Thanks!

[steve6375]

see 'List of tested ISOs' page for details on any particular ISO.

The Contig.iso question asks you to enter an option, so it depends on what you entered.

[AnonVendetta]

Yes, I know you have to enter a # when the E2B installer wizard asks about contig.iso...and I did. This was a few days ago. But I tried again today with E2B9i beta, and a spare 8GB USB FDD. When it gets to the part about contig.iso, it doesnt matter whether i choose 0 (for none), 500, or any other # (naturally there must be enough free space so I account for that), contig.iso simply is not created. When I choose 500, I get the following:

 

Make \_ISO\CONTIG.ISO file?

===========================

 

\_ISO\CONTIG.ISO is a large empty file which is only used

                   when your linux ISO is not contiguous.

 

nnnn  = Size in MB

0     = No CONTIG.ISO

 

Set CONTIG.ISO size ([0]=None) (MB) [e.g. 500] : 500

 

CONTIG.ISO is not present.

Checking for agFM compatability (requires PTN2=FAT and 60MB+, Windows 10 or USB HDD, internet connectivity)

Pinging www.google.com...

Internet OK

Partition 2 is FAT

Partition 2 is J:

Partition 2 has 557MB free (must have over 60MB free)

 

I used the default options, same behavior no matter what # I choose. Clearly the issue is with the E2B installer itself, not my method (not that I'm doing any "special" or "different").

[steve6375]

Hi - yes sorry. It's a bug in CONTIG.ISO code.

 

line near 653 in Make_E2B_USB_Drive.cmd  should be

set /a ask=!ask!+0

not

set /a ask=%ask%+0

will fix in next beta.

[steve6375]

P.S. Found  bug in recent grub4dos releases.

File must be contiguous even for a map command.

Older versions could use non-contiguous files.

See https://github.com/c...4dos/issues/233

[steve6375]

Latest grub4dos fixes the map/chainloader bug when booting non-contiguous files

http://grub4dos.chenall.net/

http://dl.grub4dos.c...a-2020-02-29.7z

[alacran]

Good news steve thanks for the info.

 

Your friend

 

alacran