Zeroshell on HDD 10 Steps (beer included) !!!

[JudasMember]

Hi all, first of all, Fulvio Ricciardi…. you are the man!!!

I’m from portugal, so .. my english is not the best. I apology for any strange word in the text.

1 step
i’ve booted from the zeroshell cd-rom.

2 Step
Plug the USB disk stick(128Mb is just fine)

3 Step
Sami HTTP installed on WinXP PC
Donloaded the Zeroshell Compacflash image to pc.
Put it on sami http server….

4 Step
Press ‘s’ at console screen to get in to prompt
mount the “usb stick”
cd /”mounted usb stick”

5 Step
type “wget http://xx.xx.xx.xx/zeroshellimage…….

6 Step
type “gunzip -c zeroshellimage…. > /dev/hda

7 Step
Boot without Cd-Rom

8 Step
Go to Admin page of zeroshell and restore the database to the IDE HDD.

9 Step
Remove USB Stick

10 Step
Get a beer from the icebox
Cheers do Fulvio Ricciardi

7351
Judas

EDIT: By the way… now it is 100 times faster!!!!

[imported_fulvioParticipant]

Thank you very much.
Fulvio

[NickmanMember]

I did what you said but all i get is a GRUB. Any ideas?

[webwarriorMember]

I also only get the GRUB command.

Any ideas?

[webwarriorMember]

Hi,

Here are the revised step for Windows users:

1 step
i’ve booted from the zeroshell cd-rom.

2 Step
Plug the USB disk stick(128Mb is just fine) into windows box, and copy downloaded image to it. rename it to something like ZS.img.gz

3 Sep
Remove USB stick from windows box, and plug it into ZeroShell box.

4 Step
Press ‘s’ at console screen to get in to prompt
Create directory under /mnt/ called usbdisk using:
mkdir /mnt/usbdisk
mount the “usbdisk” using:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk -t vfat
cd /mnt/usbdisk

5 Step
type “gunzip -c ZS.img.gz > /dev/hda

6 Step
Boot without Cd-Rom

7 Step
Go to Admin page of zeroshell and restore the database to the IDE HDD.

8 Step
Remove USB Stick

9 Step
Get a coca cola or pepsi from the icebox, as there is still allot of work to do, and you need the energy

10 Step
Tell Fulvio Ricciardi he is doing a good job, and you want this utility to run on Windows too! ho ho

[webwarriorMember]

If you get the GRUB command, tell Judas off for giving you these steps in the first place.

Some bootloader or something is not set correctly, and no one seems to know the fix.

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