burninbush Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 http://reboot.pro/11852/ Wonder if any here are playing with this live cd made from win7 bits? I ran across this link a few days ago when chasing a usb booting issue, decided to make one. I was not successful at making the iso on an XP box [with a win7 install disk in a virtual cd drive] but it worked immediately on a win7 laptop I have here, finding the files it needed on the running machine. Creates an iso of ~300mb size, in about 4 - 5 minutes. I have used Bart's PE and variants for several years, but the art is much improved from what I've seen before. Booting the iso [on hard disk] with grub takes about 70 seconds. Booting it on the Win7 Toshiba laptop, all the hardware worked immediately, even got the screen rez correct without any assistance. I was able to install several serious apps; Firefox, DVDFab, and my favorite wave editor -- all worked completely nominally. I will take this along on my travels -- will keep the laptop going even with a dead hard disk. I'm purely fascinated by all sorts of live cds -- this one is a keeper. Also immediately available for use with it are 70 small apps -- too numerous to detail. Has several registry tools, and several cloning apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 THANKs! I've been looking to update my Windows bootup CDs as my BartPE's are a bit long in tooth and have problems with newer MB and components. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burninbush Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 sounds very cool! does the iso run all the laptop's devices - the video, nic, wireless? usb devices? do any utils run on it? (superantispyware? etc.) Absolutely, very cool. Best of the PE live's that I've seen yet. I guess you are asking, can you install apps onto a running system? That is a certain yes; I did several like Firefox and DVDFab, plus a bunch of other utils. One big caveat, I don't see a way to add anything that requires a reboot -- there is no persistence through a reboot. And the exception to that caveat, is 'portable' apps installed to some hd subdir; those I tried did maintain and remember their own settings [e.g., Firefox and Thunderbird]. I burned the iso as the first session of a multisession dvd -- making it easy to tack new directories onto the disk as I discover a need. Portable apps, and even regular setup.exe files -- doesn't usually take that long to install something, especially if I don't have to hunt for them. The iso comes with a bunch of essentials already installed -- notepad, Wordpad, MediaPlayer, IE-8, others. Needs a burner app for backup, and btw, it runs from memory so you get the optical drive back after it finishes loading. All the hardware on my newest laptop here [Tosh Satellite couple years old] worked perfectly. Even got the screen rez correct on the first try. Wifi worked. Try it, you'll like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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