Rufus Ldlinux.bss Download

[Venice Sassone]

ihave formated my computer by using bootable usb that i have created with rufus program.when creating the usb the rufus sent a massage that the ldlinux.sys and ldlinux.bss files are not included and that the system will repair if she have them available.

In other words, the live system that runs the installer might need these files to boot. But if it booted, and you were able to install the system, then you don't need to care, because these files don't apply to the installed OS. Especially they aren't even needed to install the final OS bootloader, if that's your concern. They're just potentially needed so that the USB boots, and that's it.

I'm not sure why you think you need to do something about these files after you installed the OS. The message you saw from Rufus should imply that these files are only needed for the bootable USB and not the final installed OS.

I access the Arch grub menu just fine and select the first option to load into the Arch bootloader environment. Then it starts to load and lots of lines of text fly by. Then it stop and issues a fatal error that says Init not found and mentions busybox.

"This mirror uses Syslinux 6.04/pre2-11-gbf6db5b4, and this program only contains the installation files for Syslinux 6.04/pre1. Since the new version of Syslinux is not compatible with other versions, and Rufus can't possibly include all of them, you need to download two additional files (ldlinux.sys and ldlinux.bss) from the Internet. The two extra files (ldlinux.sys and ldlinux.bss) need to be downloaded from the Internet."

I have been searching high and low for more information on this and I found the files mentioned at the version it said it needed and now I am trying to figure out where to place said files in regards to using ventoy as my vessel to execute the arch USB loader.

In windows 10, I'm trying to install ubuntu with USB. For making bootable USB, I'm using rufus.However, there occurs an authentication problem even though I logged in Windows with an administrator account.

One of the biggest problems with bringing an old computer back to life is the operating system and software. Obtaining an older Windows installation CD that is still readable is becoming increasingly difficult. ISO files for versions of Windows older than 10 can no longer be downloaded from the Microsoft website. They can be obtained from a few places on the Internet, but then one has to wonder if they may be Trojan horses for malware. Activating old versions of Windows can also be time-consuming. Most Linux distributions that can be downloaded from the Internet today will not run well on computers older than about ten or twelve years. Not only do they run far too slowly on old CPU's, but they also take up far too much RAM. Finding a currently-supported Linux distribution that can run in less than 512 MB of RAM is difficult. Many people like Puppy Linux, but I have tried it several times in the past and found it to be riddled with bugs.

I recently discovered the Debian-derived Q4OS Linux distribution while searching for an operating system suitable for fifteen-to-twenty-year-old computers with little RAM. After learning that the 32-bit Q4OS Linux distribution with the Trinity desktop (which looks very similar to the Windows desktop) can be installed on a computer with as little as 64 MB of RAM, I decided to install it on my 2002 Dell Inspiron 5100 with a 2.66 GHz Pentium 4 CPU and 256 MB of RAM. I experimented with Q4OS and found it to be close to bug-free and capable of running even the latest Internet browsers if necessary. Q4OS has a few drawbacks, however, which I will discuss.

A Q4OS installation USB flash drive can be created using a number of ISO file writers. Instructions for doing so with the Rufus program can be found here. If Rufus does not automatically download ldlinux.sys and ldlinux.bss, download them here and insert them into the Rufus sub-folder "rufus_files/syslinux-6.04/20190226". A Q4OS installation USB flash drive can also be created in Linux with the command "sudo cp bootable.iso /dev/sdx" by replacing "sdx" with the drive designation of your flash drive (e.g. sdb, sdc, etc.) and "bootable.iso" with the version of the Q4OS ISO that you download.

After creating a Q4OS installation flash drive, boot your computer from it. Then, select the default option, and the installer will guide you through the installation of Q4OS onto your hard drive. Hard drive partitioning often confuses Linux newbies, so I will give a few details of the procedure that may be helpful.

When I set up a Q4OS partition, I could not see an option in the Q4OS installer for dual booting Q4OS and Windows. Later, I discovered that the Q4OS website gives a method of dual booting Q4OS and Windows 7,8 or 10 using "q4os-winsetup.zip". However, a 15-year-old computer is unlikely to be running any of those versions of Windows, so choosing to install Q4OS on your computer might mean discarding Windows.

Another page of the Q4OS website documentation says a Q4OS/Windows-dual-booting hard drive can be created by selecting the Grub bootloader during installation. I probably should have read the documentation more carefully before partitioning my hard drive. Since I did not try dual booting with Grub, I have no idea if the Q4OS installer sets it up correctly. I have experience with installers in the past that have not. However, if dual booting is still not possible when selecting Grub in the Q4OS installer, and you are willing to expend additional effort, you might try manually installing Grub. The last time I tried this was about 12 years ago. It took me three days of hard work because I could find very little documentation to help me. The only thing that ultimately made my attempt successful was discovering that Grub has a debug mode. Grub might be easier to manually install today than it was 12 years ago.

Each page of the Q4OS installer not having a unique title increases the difficulty of explaining how to use it, but I will do my best. At the first of multiple pages in the Q4OS installation process that deal with partitioning, you can choose "guided partitioning" to let Q4OS help with the partitioning, including the optional encryption of the hard drive, or you can choose "manual partitioning". I chose the latter because it allowed me to specify a more personalized partitioning scheme. After choosing the manual partitioning option, when you reach the page that lists "Use as: EXT4 journaling file system" as an option, set the bootable flag to "on". If you don't want to use EXT4, click to highlight "Use as: EXT4 journaling file system" and then hit the "enter" key. This will allow you to select from a list of other file system types. I selected btfs, so I can resize the partition later if I decide to add other operating systems to my Inspiron. You may want to reserve part of the hard drive space as a swap partition; three or four gigabytes should be more than sufficient. A swap partition serves as a buffer to keep your computer from crashing if you happen to run a program that requires more RAM than is available. Format the swap partition as "swap area". Then on the page that lists the disks and disk partitions, scroll down and select "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk".

After installing Q4OS onto my hard drive, I saw only a handful of applications in the desktop menu. These included the Konqueror web browser, the Kwrite text editor, a terminal program, and two system accessories. At this point, Q4OS appeared to take up a mere 1.4 MB of hard drive space. This makes no sense, given that the Q4OS ISO file is 446.7 MB, but that is what I saw. I must have been misinterpreting something. Only 116 MB of RAM were in use on my Inspiron at the end of installation.

To install more desktop applications, I ran the desktop profiler from the Q4OS welcome screen that comes up automatically at boot. The Desktop profiler has three options. The last two are "Ultimately minimal desktop, you will be free to set up anything by yourself" and "The Basic Q4OS Desktop with common utilities, system tools and libraries". The "Ultimately minimal desktop" was already installed from the before-mentioned Q4OS ISO file, so I selected "The Basic Q4OS Desktop with common utilities, system tools and libraries". When I did, 367 Linux packages downloaded from the Internet and installed in 76 minutes. Afterwards, Q4OS took up 2.9 GB of hard drive space and required 122 MB of RAM with no user-selected applications running. Surprisingly few new applications showed up in the Q4OS desktop menu.

I think I would rather have downloaded a larger Q4OS ISO file with the basic desktop files already included, but that is not an option. Having to download the basic Q4OS desktop separately from the Q4OS ISO file means that if the Q4OS repository ever goes away, the Q4OS ISO file will be nearly useless, except for the command line packages that it contains.

I wanted to determine whether the sound and video drivers that had been installed would be sufficient to play a DVD. So, I used the "software Centre" ("Install Applications" in the Q4OS desktop menu) to install the VLC media player and multimedia codecs. This prompted the installation of over 100 new packages. The software center helps users to easily download and install applications. It contains 52 applications, including the Chromium, Firefox, and Palemoon web browsers, the VLC media player, Audacity, Calibre, Filezilla, Gimp, the Synaptic package manager, Libre Office, Thunderbird, the Clemintine music player, Gparted, and the Deluge bit-torrent client.

After this last round of package installations, the sound and video worked, but playback of a DVD was choppy. Next, I tried playing an MP4 movie file. The playback was just as choppy. I used "sudo apt-get" to install Mplayer because I remember it sometimes working a little better than the VLC media player on computers with slow processors. Playback of the MP4 file turned out to be even worse with Mplayer.

3a8082e126