Just found some old notes, dunno wheter they still apply but its worth a try.
1. Make an Image of your choice by the creator. I made an post about that. Copy the resulting ISO to an USB Stick.
2. Boot in the new PC with Ubuntu or Knoppix Live DVD. Mount the USB Stick.
3. Copy the ISO to the Harddrive. With dd.
dd if=webconverger.iso of=/dev/sda
4. Reboot, thats it
Trying this method at this time.. in a few moment I am hopefully able to say this solved the problem..
SUCCES!!!! Now I only have to change the default commandline to enable direct wlan connectivity.
Edited the ISO with UltraIso. Done.."thinking...Why there was no tutorial about this.." :p
Well, you can always feel free to write an little tutorial with your exact steps. I would post it as guest tutorial with your name if you'd wish to. ^^
After I 'dd' the unedited webconverger iso. It was working fine. After I did edit the ISO for direct wlan support and 'dd' that iso to sda1, the mbr did seem to be corrupted. The laptop told "Hard Disk boot sector invalid". Trying to find a solution for that problem at this time. Maybe I have to dig up some windows install cd to recover the mbr.
The edited ISO was working fine in vmware. That is the sad thing about it..
Ahhhh....
Na I got an better idea for you.
Do not try to UltraIso this stuff.
It will end up nasty!
Instead, build your own image following my older Tutorial here:
http://www.nico-maas.de/wordpress/?p=484
And after building - "burn it" to the HDD as decribed in this Tut ^^
That should do it ^^
I used MagicIso to add 'wlan=ssid'. And now it finally works !!:D
Why would UltraIso (or MagicIso) mess up the .ISO ? Maybe you're right because the edited iso is about 1MB smaller while there was added extra data.
Nice! Well, I had similar bad experiences in terms of ESXi 3.5 CDs, changing files within the ISO. Only UltraISO worked for me at that time, other software like 7zip did made some pretty errors. You sometimes really need to try to find something working. Thats sad, but its like that. Nice to hear that it worked out. Wish you all the best!
Thanks,
This is a step by step for the people that could be interested. Would probably also post this at the webconverger forum.
Problem: People without computer knowledge, running Windows XP , having a (unsecured) internet connection, result .. 3 scary trojans and a annoying slow running computer because AVG did magically disappear from the OS :p.
Solution: Use a Webconverger live cd (or other kiosk OS).
Problem: Have to add "wlan=ssid,password' add boot , this is difficult for the people described above to understand and remember. There is also a lot of noise from the cd\dvd-drive when booting from a cd since the computer is about 8 years old, the cd\dvd-drive isn't very fast as well.
Solution: Boot webconverger from the HDD to remove the annoying noise. Edit the boot config file 'live.cfg' (inside the ISO file!)for wireless support without extra typing at boot time.
HOWTO:
-Requierments
* PC\notebook\Laptop\whatever where a (edited) webconverger must be started from the hard drive instead of a USB device or cd\dvd drive. In my case I was unable to boot from a USB device since the bios did not suppported that option.
* Other PC with a Windows version installed that is capable of running MagicIso.
* Knoppix 6.4 Live DVD.
* Webc-7.2.iso (webconverger ISO file)
* A USB memory stick
-Step0 - Preperations
* Make a cd or DVD from the webconverger iso and make sure this is running on the pc/laptop/notebook of your choice. Add "wlan=yournetworkname,networkpassword" to be sure you are capable of running this OS without any problem.
* Install MagicIso on your windows computer if it is not already present.
-Step1 - Editing the ISO to your requirements(this example adds wlan).
*1 Open the downloaded webc-7.2.iso file in MagicIso
*2 Copy the live.cfg file to your desktop.
*3 Open this file in Notepad, NOT word(pad)!!
*4 Add "wlan=ssid," (don't forget the"," at the end!!) after the first word "quiet". Do not do anything else! "...quiet wlan=network-name,password"
*5 Save this file and overwrite\copy it to the directory you did copy it from before at *2.
* Save the changed made in the ISO by clicking the floppy-disk icon and close the MagicIso program.
- Step 2 - Copy the edited ISO to a USB memory stick.
* Like the title says.
-Step 3 - Get the webconverger ISO running directly from the PC hdd.
* Plug in a the USB-memory-stick (otherwise you have to manually mount it after booting up the Knoppix 6.4 Live DVD).
* Make sure the PC will boot from the DVD-station by editing the boot settings in your bios. Every computer Bios is different, you should look this up yourself if this isn't happening.
* Boot from the Knoppix 6.4 Live DVD and wait untill this is running idle.
* On your desktop there should be a map called 'Knoppix', open this map.
* Check if your USB is recognized and search your edited ISO.
* Copy the location from the address-bar.
* Run Konsole from the menu bar, NOT another terminal program!
* Type "fdisk -l" and check if there are no errors for the SDA drive(hdd). There must be a partitioning table (if this is missing run gparted the repair\add this.
* Type "dd if=*location of iso file* of=/dev/sda
- For example: "dd if=/media/sdba/webconverger.iso of=/dev/sda
- wait a few minutes, the iso is 'copied', a new line will pop-up when this is finished, relax.
*Shutdown the Knoppix 6.4 live DVD and then remove the DVD.
*Power the computer and webconverger should start and automatically connect to your given wlan network.
Result:
- Boot time about 1 minute instead of 3 minutes (could be a lot faster because the 50 seconds delay at boot wasn't edited).
- instead of hearing a sound simulare to a starting airplane there is about no noise at all. Only the CPU-fan is spinning up a few seconds because this is integrated in the hardware 'unchangeable' settings.
Add some picture when I have the time to do so and convert this to a PDF file.
I have to do all the steps over again because I didn't make any pictures yet, so this could take a while since I'm a little busy at this time. The steps above should be good enough to understand anyway at this time.
Nice thing, that should help people ^-^
If i use a USB Internet Data card & have its installation files, how to configure the Webconverger for this internet connection? i.e. from USB Broadband Data Card.
Any advise will be really helpful.
Regards,
Girish
There is no simple way to integrate drivers or such into webconverger.
Webconverger is Linux based.
You should ask on the Webconverger website for help.
Sorry.
I can run webconverger as live cd.
What is the login and password?
Thanks.
As far as I know, there are none. So just boot and it should work.
Hello friends.I have some difficulties installing the edited webconverger ISO to HDD.However I was able to do that using the untouched version of the iso (webc-14.1.iso).I would appreciate any help.My modified iso is booting ok on a flash drive.Thanks a lot 😉
Thats a bad thing. If it does boot from flash/cdrom, it should also boot from HDD. Maybe you should try the webconverger forums. These instructions are maybe to outdated for the 14.1 version.