Reply To: Installing ZeroShell in Hard Disk

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Hello all. Here my way to install ZS2.0 on HDD. Root folder is located on Hdd
Boot from your favorite liveCD linux (I’ve used knoppix 6.7) and execute the next steps:

1. Install ZS2.0 in the usual way, as described here or on http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/documentation/
   Then you must delete 2nd and 3rd partitions (all except 1st boot partition) and create your own partitions (ext3 and ext4 fs are supported)
2. Create tmp folders:

   mkdir sda1
   
   mkdir sda2
   
   mkdir usb
   
   mkdir iso
   
   mkdir rootfs.dir
   
   mkdir initrd.dir

   and mount partitions to it:
   in my case HDD was /dev/sda, usb flashdrive – /dev/sdb and ZS2.0RC1 livecd iso image filename is ZeroShell-2.0.RC1.iso. You can find out flashdrive device name using dmesg or fdisk -l commands

   mount /dev/sda1 sda1
   
   mount /dev/sda2 sda2
   
   mount /dev/sdb1 usb
   
   mount -o loop usb/ZeroShell-2.0.RC1.iso iso

3. Copy all files and directories from previously mounted iso image to sda2:

   copy -arp iso/* sda2
   
   rm -f sda2/isolinux

4. Unpacking rootfs to hdd:

   gunzip -c iso/isolinux/rootfs > rootfs
   
   mount -o loop rootfs rootfs.dir ##mount unpacked rootfs ext2 image
   
   cd rootfs.dir
   
   find . -maxdepth 1 -type l -delete ##Deleting softlinks
   
   cp -arp ./* ../sda2
   
   cd ../
   
   

5. Also we need to edit sda2/etc/fstab:

   /dev/sda2      /              ext3      defaults     1    1
   
   /dev/sda1      /boot        ext2      defaults,ro     0     0
   
   proc              /proc        proc     defaults        0     0
   
   none             /sys          sysfs     remount        0     0
   
   devpts           /dev/pts     devpts   gid=4,mode=620  0     0
   
   shm              /dev/shm     tmpfs    defaults        0     0
   
   usbfs            /proc/bus/usb  usbfs    defaults    0     0

6. modification of initrd.img

   gunzip -c sda1/initrd.img > initrd.dir/initrd
   
   cd initrd.dir
   
   cpio -id < initrd

   Edit initrd.dir/init script (I wrote only changed strings here):

   ##   if [ "$root" = ISO ] ; then
   
   #     echo "Mounting ISO image  ..."
   
   #     mkdir /cdrom
   
   #     if mount "$device" /cdrom 2>/dev/null ; then
   
   #       echo -n "Loading root filesystem into RAM device... "
   
   #       if gzip -dc /cdrom/i#solinux/rootfs >/dev/ram2 2>/dev/null ; then
   
   #         echo Success
   
   #         umount /cdrom
   
   #         #/sbin/insmod /lib/loop.ko
   
   mount $device /.root
   
   cd /.root/dev
   
   ln -sf $device cdrom
   
   cd /
   
   mount /.root/dev/cdrom /.root/cdrom 2>/dev/null
   
   sleep 3
   
   echo "Successfully mounted device $device"
   
   #umount /cdrom
   
   #       else
   
   #         echo "Wrong ISO filesystem found"
   
   #         umount $device > /dev/null
   
   #         while true ; do sleep 10000 ; done
   
   #       fi
   
   #     else
   
   #       echo "Failed to mount the Live CD"
   
   #       while true ; do sleep 10000 ; done
   
   #     fi
   
   #  else
   
   #     if ! mount -n -t "$rootfstype" -o "$rootflags" "$device" /.root ; then
   
   #       no_mount $device
   
   #       cat /proc/partitions
   
   #       while true ; do sleep 10000 ; done
   
   #     else
   
   #       echo "Successfully mounted device $device"
   
   #     fi
   
   #   fi 

   pack new initrd and replace the original with it:

   rm -f initrd
   
   find -print | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -c9 > ../sda1/initrd.img

That`s all. Reboot and try ti boot from hdd