Comments on: Install IPCop from a USB Drive

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:49:56 +0000

No, it must be installed and run from a hard drive.

By: Mal Anderson

Mal Anderson — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:31:49 +0000

Can I boot AND RUN from a USB memstick like I can with Ubuntu 10.04 “Live CD”? Is the USB image a “Live” image? I have both a 4GB and an 8GB USB memstick available for use. I just want to install and test the features of IPCOP before I decide to run it in production. Then I will dedicate a hard disk to the installation and wipe it clean first. That way, I don’t have to wipe a hard disk, install IPCOP, test it and decide I do not like it and rebuild the wiped hard disk. I don’t have any spare hard disks available ATM. Money is tight. This is for a home network of 3 PCs to hide behind.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:24:00 +0000

Sorry, I am not sure on that one.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:16:56 +0000

I’m getting “No bootable partition in table” when I try to boot from the USB-drive. Any idea why?

By: Johan

Johan — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:44:44 +0000

Thanks a million, worked like a charm

By: pbounds

pbounds — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:01:28 +0000

Great FAQ, and straight to the point, worked like a champ! Our company was buying these small supermicro 1U rack boxes with no cdrom, so I always opened up the case hooked up a cdrom cable and installed that way, with the bootable USB, system booted right up, recognized the USB ky drive, and loaded the Ipcop, without a hitch. Only cleanup I did after that was run the updates from my MAC, and also install the OpenVPN plugin software.

Thanks!

By: John

John — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:31:08 +0000

Close explorer altogether, it will work if you don’t have anything showing the files you are using open. (at least for me – same error and closing explorer fixed it)

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:40:17 +0000

Something has your image file locked. Either an explorer process, or something else. Try copying the file and renaming it and using that file.

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:50:20 +0000

I get the following error:
C:\dd>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is FC8A-C2EE

Directory of C:\dd

02/15/2010 11:52 AM .
02/15/2010 11:52 AM ..
12/06/2003 03:50 PM 18,325 Copying.txt
02/26/2007 08:50 PM 342,016 dd.exe
02/26/2007 08:19 PM 4,319 ddchanges.txt
01/22/2010 02:01 AM 54,411,264 ipcop-1.9.11-install-usb-fdd.i486.img
4 File(s) 54,775,924 bytes
2 Dir(s) 11,514,855,424 bytes free

C:\dd>dd if=ipcop-1.9.11-install-usb-fdd.i486.img of=\\.\J: bs=1k

rawwrite dd for windows version 0.5.
Written by John Newbigin
This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details
Error opening output file: 32 The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

By: ben

ben — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:40:18 +0000

thanks a lot for this guide, it worked fine for me.
cheers