UBCD50b12 with grub4dos support is out, Finally! External links Options

[Icecube]

UBCD50b12 with grub4dos support is out:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewt...php?p=6663#6663

Please test it and report if something doesn't work.
If memdisk floppy emulation doesn't work for you, can you write down the 'invalid opcode' that you get, and try all bootoptions of the freedos image with memdisk emulation:

0 Boot Clean
1 Boot UMBPCI (silent)
2 Boot UMBPCI (optimal)
3 Boot UMBPCI (semi-defensive)
4 Boot EMM386 (optimal)
5 Boot EMM386 (semi-defensive)
6 Boot no UMB (defensive)
7 Boot no UMB (ultra-defensive)

And report which 'invalid opcodes' you get, and which entries boot.
Then try the same when using grub4dos floppy emulation.
So that the developers of memdisk can fix this issue.

e.g.: on my PC memdisk emulation doesn't work for UMBPCI, but it works with EMM386, while grub4dos floppy emulation works in both cases.

When you use iso mapping, the following programs won't work:

• Avira Antivirus Rescue System (fault of Avira):
  complain here: http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=...amp;boardID=210
• Parted Magic and all programs that depend on Parted Magic (gparted, partimage, testdisk, photorec):
  unless you rename ubcd50b12.iso to pmagic-3.8.iso

[Panarchy]

Does UBCD5 support Unattended (Network) installations of Windows?

[olive]

Is it a floppy image that creates bootable floppy? But nowadays we can hardly find floppy drive in PC...

[was_jaclaz]

@Panarchy

@Olive

Why don't you read on the home page, then test the app:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

• Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.
• Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Even if you do have a floppy drive, it is still much much faster to run your diagnostic tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the floppy drive.
• Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Wouldn't you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate Boot CD is for you!
• New! Run Ultimate Boot CD from your USB memory stick. A script on the CD prepares your USB memory stick so that it can be used on newer machines that supports booting from USB devices. You can access the same tools as you would from the CD version.
• When you boot up from the CD, a text-based menu will be displayed, and you will be able to select the tool you want to run. The selected tool actually boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory.

Tools currently included in the Ultimate Boot CD are:
...
...

And the answer is NO to both questions.

jaclaz

[Panarchy]

Darn!

Well thanks for clearing that up for me.

Does anyone know of a Network Boot Disc/Floppy that can mount shares contained on a DOMAIN, and run windows executables such as winnt &/or winnt32?

Thanks,

Panarchy

[Icecube]

A more up to date list of avaible applications (will replace the main page when UBCD50 is final):
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/index50.html

Note: not all version numbers are up to date with the last release, but the list of included programs should be correct.

[olive]

what is the current version indeed? i went there and saw sometimes 4.1, sometimes 5.0.

[wimb]

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UBCD50b12 with grub4dos support is doing well and all SubMenus can be reached.

Booting the ISO loaded from HD into memory using GRUB4DOS can be realised
by using BOOT_ISO.exe of U_XP_SET package to make the HD Boot Option in GRUB4DOS menu.lst
It works very fast and allows to Boot from your NTFS Harddisk in this way
with all kind of floppy images present in the UBCD50b12 ISO loaded into RAM memory.

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So DOS is still alive and UBCD50b12 makes everything very handy and useful.
You can Boot with UBCD50b12 ISO Not only from your NTFS Harddisk,
but also from your Bootable USB-stick made with Make_USB.exe ,
where in this case you have to manually adjust the preconfigured menu.lst file.

menu.lst

CODE

title Boot ubcd50b12.iso - ISO from RAM
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /ubcd50b12.iso
map --mem /ubcd50b12.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)

Some options e.g. UBCD FreeDos require to use the GRUB4DOS Menu since otherwise Invalid Opcode is the result.
Therefore it is better to boot directly with the GRUB4DOS Menu
by using configfile option in GRUB4DOS menu.lst
Best results are obtained with

menu.lst

CODE

title Boot ubcd50b12.iso - GRUB4DOS Menu
find --set-root  /ubcd50b12.iso
map --mem /ubcd50b12.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
configfile /ubcd/menus/grub4dos/main.lst

[Icecube]

what is the current version indeed? i went there and saw sometimes 4.1, sometimes 5.0.

Version 4.1.1 is the last 'stable' release, but is quite old (May 10, 2007). It is a bug fix release for 4.1.0.
Version 5.00beta12 is the last 'testing' release (but it is much stabler than UBCD 4.11). It has a lot of updated programs. It contains a linux distro (Parted Magic) again like this was the case in UBCD 3.4 (INSERT). The freedos image that is used for booting many programs on UBCD, has got a hjuges update/upgrade. It is still in beta, because the file hierarchy could change a lot between the different betas, which is very annoying if you write a tutorial for including other software to UBCD. So the beta only indicates that there can be big differences between the different betas, but it doesn't say that it is tricky or risky to use.

[olive]

Is there a planned date for v5 final?