And now for a kindergarten-level question, Re: Update on my PINGish bootable USB

Reece wants to do things like "*not* adding wireless networking and USB3
support " - all I want is a way to stop  caps lock.  So far I have used
several hours of my diminishing life expectancy back-tracking to re-type
words that have suddenly gONE INTO UPPEr  case because of my clumsiness.
 Can I disable it, other than with duct tape?  I'd rather have to hold the
shift key down for the few times I need to use all caps.

Kathinka.



On 9 March 2014 18:32, Reece Arnott <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm getting my head around compiling the kernel and modules from source
> code and making some progress on figuring out a number of different ways of
> *not* adding wireless networking and USB3 support via kernel modules
> (issues number 2 and 3 in my previous long email). Is there an easy way to
> compile modules without compiling the entire kernel (in particular the USB3
> support in xhci_hcd.ko of the 3.1.2 kernel from source downloaded from
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.1.2.tar.bz2 and
> setting different kernel information than that of the host system)? It
> takes a couple of hours to compile everything and when you do it wrong 3 or
> 4 times it starts to get annoying.
>
> I'm not sure what I was doing wrong with transferring the rootfs.tar.bz2
> filesystem to be a new initrd.gz loop device filesystem (issue number 1 in
> my previous long email) but I didn't have much trouble with doing it this
> weekend.
>
> I suspect I was tired and not paying attention to one of two things:
> 1. The filesystem contains symlinks so I couldn't unzip it, select all,
> copy and paste in nautilus. I unzipped it directly to a mounted and
> formatted loop device.
> 2. There are 3 different sizes to keep in mind and a>b>c where a is the
> size of the unzipped rootfs.tar.bz2, b is the filesize of the mounted loop
> device, and c is the amount of ram set aside in syslinux.cfg to load this
> loop device into. For future things I have created another little script to
> transfer from a currently mounted initrd to a newly created and differently
> sized one. See below...
>
> I have also figured out another way to create a new bootable USB (and for
> completeness bootable CD iso) without using the full UNetbootin interface,
> see below also. I needed to find the mbr.bin to replace the USB master boot
> record (using dd) and isolinux.bin to be the boot sector for the CD (using
> mkisofs). They were both in the same syslinux library folder
> /usr/lib/syslinux. There is one more missing link as I am currently still
> relying on syslinux to install the bootsector in the active partition. I
> suspect if I knew the correct file in the syslinux library folder then I
> could use dd to copy the bootsector rather than use syslinux which you'd
> have to install on any Linux system before being able to use the script. dd
> is more likely to be previously installed.
>
> Does anyone know what file is used as the bootsector for syslinux on a
> FAT32 filesystem? I've installed syslinux on my Ubuntu machine and I am
> assuming its one of the files in /usr/lib/syslinux. I may have to download
> the source code and see what files it uses for the -i (install bootsector)
> option.
>
> ---Transfer initrd to different size loop device----
>
> echo "New Size in KB"
> read filesize
> echo "File for new initrd"
> read initrdnew
> echo "Folder to mount new initrd"
> read initrdnewmount
>
> #Assumes the loadfs.sh has been run first
> echo "Folder for mounted initrd"
> read initrdmount
>
> sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=$initrdnew bs=1024 count=$filesize
> sudo losetup /dev/loop1 $initrdnew
> sudo mkfs -t ext3 -m 1 -v /dev/loop1
> sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/loop1 "$initrdnewmount"
>
> echo "Zipping up the old filesystem"
> cd "$initrdmount"
> sudo tar -cjf "/tmp/rootfs.tar.bz2" *
> cd "$initrdnewmount"
> echo "Unzipping to the new filesystem"
> sudo tar -xjf "/tmp/rootfs.tar.bz2"
>
> echo "Type: sudo umount \"$initrdnewmount\""
> echo "to unmount the new filesystem."
>
> ---- end of file -----
>
>
>
> ---- make bootable cd iso----
> #isolinux.bin oriignally found in /usr/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin
> echo Where is the USB drive mounted?
> read mountpoint
> echo Destination iso?
> read bootcdiso
> mkisofs -b bootableiso/isolinux.bin -c bootableiso/boot.cat -no-emul-boot
> -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o "$bootcdiso" "$mountpoint"
>
> ---- end of file -----
>
>
> --- make usb bootable----
> #mbr.bin originally found in /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin
> echo What device to make bootable?
> read bootabledevice
> echo What partition do you want to make active?
> read activepartition
> sudo syslinux -i $bootabledevice$activepartition
> sudo dd conv=notrunc bs=440 count=1 if=mbr.bin of=$bootabledevice
> sudo parted $bootabledevice set $activepartition boot on
>
> ---- end of file -----
>
>
> -- "Believing men would act in their own interest was not cynicism, it
> turned out, but sheerest optimism; in reality men do not meet so high a
> standard." -- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapter 84)
> http://hpmor.com/ Reece Arnott Dunedin New Zealand
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