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download plop linux plopilnux iso Create a LiveCD. The download links in this description are for the 64-bit version. To create a 32-bit version use the corresponding files from the download area. 1. Linux: Create a Plop Linux LiveCD 1.1. Burn an ISO image 1.1.1. Burn on CD 1.1.2. Burn on DVD 1.2. Create a new ISO image 1.2.1. Download and extract 1.2.2. Adding files 1.2.3. Create the ISO image 2. Windows: Create a Plop Linux LiveCD 2.1. Burn an ISO image 2.2. How-to create a new ISO image. 1. Linux: Create a Plop Linux LiveCD. There are 2 solutions to boot from CD/DVD. The first solution is to use the existing Plop Linux ISO image. Pro: You have to burn it on a CD as it is and it's possible to boot. Contra: No anti-virus license and no antivirus database comes with the ISO. That means no F-PROT or Avast is available. No personal files or scripts from you are on the CD. If you don't need any personal files, F-PROT or Avast, then you can use it. If you want more power, then you have to create your personal ISO image in a few steps. That's the second solution. 1.1. Burn an ISO image. You have to download the file ploplinux-21.2-x86_64.iso. K3b is an easy to use GUI for the Linux burner programs. You can simply burn the ISO to a disc with a few mouse clicks. If you prefer the command line, then use the following commands. 1.1.1. Burn on CD. cdrecord is the Linux tool to burn CD ISO images. Burn the ISO with cdrecord : cdrecord -v dev=<devicename> <iso image> Example: If your cd writer drive is /dev/hdd . cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdd ploplinux-21.2-x86_64.iso. 1.1.2. Burn on DVD. growisofs is the Linux tool to burn DVD ISO images. Command: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z <devicename>=<iso image> Example: If your dvd writer drive is /dev/hdd . growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdd=ploplinux-21.2-x86_64.iso. 1.2. Create a new ISO image. You need mkisofs or genisoimage to create an ISO file. Prefere genisoimage . 1.2.1. Download and extract. You have to download the file ploplinux-21.2-x86_64.tar.gz to your home directory. Then extract the downloaded file. tar xfvz ploplinux-21.2-x86_64.tar.gz. 1.2.2. Adding files. The directory ploplinux-21.2-x86_64/ with the Plop Linux directories and files is created and you can add your personal files and the F-PROT and Avast files to the ploplinux/opt/ directory. Executable files should be placed in ploplinux/bin/ . 1.2.3. Create the ISO image. The following command creates the ISO image with genisoimage. The parameters are the same with mkisofs. Run it from the command line in your home directory. genisoimage -J -r -V ploplinux-21.2-x86_64 \ -hide-joliet-trans-tbl -hide-rr-moved \ -allow-leading-dots \ -o ploplinux-21.2-x86_64.iso -no- emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \ -c syslinux/boot.catalog -b syslinux/isolinux.bin \ -boot-info-table -l ploplinux-21.2-x86_64. You can download the script make-iso.sh when you don't want to type the whole stuff. Run ' sh make-iso.sh 21.2-x86_64 ' from the command line in your home directory to create the ISO image ploplinux-21.2-x86_64.iso . When creating the ISO was successful, then burn it. see 1.1. Burn an ISO image. 2. Windows: Create a Plop Linux LiveCD. There are 2 solutions to boot from CD/DVD. The first solution is to use the existing Plop Linux ISO image. Pro: You have to burn it on a CD as it is and it's possible to boot. Contra: No anti-virus license and no antivirus database comes with the ISO. That means no F-PROT or Avast is available. No personal files or scripts from you are on the CD. If you don't need any personal files, F-PROT or Avast, then you can use it. If you want more power, then you have to create your personal ISO image in a few steps. That's the second solution. 2.1. Burn an ISO image. You have to download the file ploplinux-21.2-x86_64.iso or use your own ISO file. You can use Nero, the free CDBurnerXP or any other burner program that supports "burning ISO images". Use an option like Burn ISO to Disc or Copy ISO to Disc . Then select the Plop Linux ISO image and burn it to the disc. 2.2. How-to create a new ISO image. plpmkiso.exe is outdated, a new version comes soon! You have to create the ISO with mkisofs. See 6. mkisofs.exe is the required tool to create a ISO image. It's a part of cdrtools. Download the zip file mkisofs.zip. It contains the required binaries of cdrtools-latest.zip from the cdrtools homepage and the program plpmkiso.exe . Extract mkisofs.zip to your hard disk. Remember the folder you are extracting the files. Download ploplinux-21.2-x86_64.zip to your hard disk and extract the files into the mkisofs folder. When you open the mkisofs folder, then you should see the ploplinux-21.2-x86_64 folder and some files like mkisofs and plpmkiso . Change to the ploplinux-21.2-x86_64 folder. You can add your files to the ploplinux-21.2-x86_64\ploplinux\opt\ folder. See F-PROT or Avast to add the antivirus files to your CD. Boot from ISO. The ISO file can be on a local drive, a network drive, on a TFTP server, HTTP server or FTP server. See the "PXE boot" section for network examples. You have to use the Linux command line parameter iso_filename . The ISO file is in the /iso directory. 1. GRUB2 example. The Plop Linux related part of grub.cfg. 2. GRUB / GRUB4DOS example. The Plop Linux related part of menu.lst. 3. Syslinux example. The Plop Linux related part of syslinux.cfg. Next >> PXE Boot from network (DHCP, TFTP, NFS, Samba, FTP, HTTP) - Linux server. Download plop linux plopilnux iso. Plop Linux is a small distribution that can boot from CD, DVD, USB flash drive (UFD), USB hard disk or from network with PXE. It is designed to rescue data from a damaged system, backup and restore operating systems, automate tasks and more. Elmar Hanlhofer has announced the release of Plop Linux 4.2.0, a utility live CD or DVD (with Fluxbox and GNOME 3) designed to rescue data from a damaged system, backup and restore operating systems, and automate common tasks. Would you like to receive an email when a new version of Plop Linux is released? If so then click here. Are you having a problem downloading Linux from LQ ISO? Let us know and we'd be happy to address the issue. Introduction. This document walks you through installing Plop Linux on a VirtualBox VM, and is probably valid for bare metal too. Plop Linux is a bare bones, boot-to-root Linux that's indispensable for experimentation. Plop experimentation will be detailed in later web pages, and linked from here as they're completed. The other cool thing about installing Plop is it's one of the simplest no-script installations. See the next section. The Dao of Linux Installation. Most Linuxes I've used perform the installation for me, using scripts. Redhat, Caldera, Mandrake/Mandriva (may it rest in peace), Ubuntu, Debian, Manjaro: Their install CDs all boot up and script you through the entire process. Easy. Others, like Slackware, Arch, Gentoo and Funtoo, make the user do it manually. Plop is like those, but much simpler. Plop installation could serve as a proof of concept for installing the rest. Here's the distinctive concept of manual installation: What you're really doing is preparing one or more file systems on a hard disk, copying all files to that/those file system(s), doing just enough configuration to enable booting, and installing a bootloader. Once again: Partition the hard disk and mount the partitions into a tree. Copy all files to that tree. chroot to the root of the new tree. Perform bare minimum configuration to enable booting. Install a bootloader. Exit the chroot. Unmount all hard disk partitions. Reboot. If you're not doing RAID, LVM or disk encryption, it's actually pretty simple. With Plop Linux, the bare minimal configuration turns out to be preparing /etc/fstab. So think about it once more. When you do that big, bad, 40 manual step Arch installation, what you're really doing is the following: Partition the hard disk and mount the partitions into a tree. Copy all files to that tree. chroot to the root of the new tree. Perform bare minimum configuration to enable booting. Install a bootloader. Exit the chroot. Unmount all hard disk partitions. Reboot. It's very possible that, under the hood, the scripting type installations of distros like Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu, Manjaro and the like follow this very same process, but you don't see it. With the Plop Linux installation, this process is up close, personal, and in your face. Gotchas. If you examine the eight steps, it's obvious you must already be running Linux to perform those eight steps. You've either stuck the new hard disk in a running Linux box, or much more likely, you booted to Linux with a CD, DVD or thumb drive, and are performing the actions from that booted Linux.