Installing VL5.9 Live from the command line

[Colonel Panic]

Hi. I've been sent a copy of Vector 5.9 Standard Live by mistake (I only have 256 MB of RAM), but I'm trying to make it work despite the fact that it won't launch the window manager.

The best solution I can think of is to create a partition for it on my hard drive. set up an ext2 file system on that partition and then copy the files over; the problem is though that I can't copy the /sys files from the CD-ROM. Is there any way round this, or a better way of installing Vector Live to my hard drive from the command line?

Thanks in advance,

Colonel Panic.

[uelsk8s]

here is the code the live installer uses to copy its files into a new root

Code:

cd /
TARGET="put your mounted target here"
dirs=$(ls -1 / | egrep -v "^proc" | egrep -v "^mnt" | egrep -v "^boot"  | egrep -v "^sys"  | egrep -v "^tmp")
for i in $dir; do
       cp --preserve=all -R /$i $TARGET/
done
mkdir -p $TARGET/{tmp,boot,mnt,sys,proc}
mkdir -p $TARGET/mnt/{cdrom,cdwriter,dvd,dvdwriter,floppy,hd,linux,loop,memory,pendrive,tmp,vl-hot,win,zip}

from there it resets the live start scripts to non-live versions

Code:

cd $TARGET/etc/rc.d/ && rm rc.S && ln -s rc.S.real rc.S
cd $TARGET/etc/rc.d/ && rm rc.M && ln -s rc.M.real rc.M
cd $TARGET/etc/rc.d/ && rm rc.local && ln -s rc.local.real rc.local

then you just need to change fstab and install a bootloader

[M0E-lnx]

Not sure if you've tried this yet or not.. but have you tried running the installer in text mode?
I think it's called vliveinstall.

There is a good chance it may run.. it's an xdialog script based on the functions of vasm.

Try it and see what happens

Oooops... dang he beat me to it

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[uelsk8s]

vliveinstaller will not run in text mode.
If you edit /sbin/vliveinstaller and change the line that has Xdialog in it to dialog, it might.

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks again, definitely one to try