BioSlax is a new Live CD operating system, developed in our lab, as a comprehensive system for Bioinformatics workstation client, server resource and teaching platform. It has thus far been successfully used for teaching and training by several educational institutes, including the National University of Singapore where we use it to teach our advance bioinformatics course (LSM3241) students. Watch the YouTube video below for a demo on how to use the Live CD (this video, btw, happens to be my first YouTube video, so, please pardon the amateurishness; the voice is mine and the hand gestures are by my colleague Ms. Hu Yongli). Visit www.bioslax.com for more information (i.e. documentation) and to download a copy of the latest ISO image file.
Posted by: Asif Khan
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how do u do this on an usb?
ReplyDeleteAccording to our BioSlax experts, to boot from a thumb drive, do the following:
ReplyDeletei) Format the USB thumb drive either in FAT or NTFS option. If you are using Windows, just right click on the thumb drive, select format, and then choose the quick format option.
ii) Copy all files from the Live CD/DVD to the root of the USB Drive's file system. You will be copying two folders (namely "boot" and "bioslax") from the CD/DVD to the thumb drive.
iii) If you are currently in Windows operating system, run the "bootinst.bat" (or if in Unix, "bootinst.sh") in the "boot" folder of the thumb drive, in order to convert the USB thumb drive into a bootable format.
iv) Reboot the machine with the USB drive pre-inserted, and select the boot sequence to boot first from the USB Drive. The BIOS will pick up the output of bootinst.bat on the USB drive, which makes the USB drive boot sector bootable.
For more information see post 13.