Install moonOs 3 (Makara) From Hard Disk

moonOS is a complete and fully functional operative system based on the LXDE, Enlightenment DR17 and powered by the popular Linux Distribution Ubuntu. moonOS, a project started and designed by the Cambodian artist Chanrithy Thim (12rithy), which is perfect for any Desktop, Laptop PC or even for a Virtual Machine.

If you want to install it without burning a cd like me you can try to install from hdd. Due to being an Ubuntu based Linux distro, there is a similar installation procedure with Ubuntu. I am going to tell you about installing it from a Linux distro.

Firstly, create a directory under your home or another place. I will assume you've created a directory in /home named moonos. Then copy the iso image to this directory. To boot from this image we have to show grub where kernel and ramdisk files are. We will extract them from the image.


Open a console:

sudo su mount -o loop /home/moonos/moonos-3-makara-desktop-i386.iso /media/cdrom0

cp /media/cdrom0/casper/initrd.gz /home/moonos

cp /media/cdrom0/casper/vmlinuz /home/moonos

Now we will add an item to /boot/grub/menu.lst.

title Install moonOs

root (hd0,6)
kernel /home/moonos/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/home/moonos/moonos-3-makara-desktop-i386.iso

My root directory is under (hd0,6) here.

Save the file and restart pc. After reboot, you will see Install moonOs in the grub menu.

Remember that you can't modify the partition where the iso file is located. So you should deal with partitioning operations before starting installation.

eth0 switches to eth1

I have an nVidia Corporation MCP65 chipset ethernet card. I was having problems with Pardus's network manager.
On every boot, I had to select network profile manually. After some research, i've seen that eth0 switches to eth1 or eth1 switches to eth0 on every boot.

I decided to investigate what happens when udev initializes the ethernet card. When
dmesg | grep eth is executed on the console,

[ 10.480852] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.64.
[ 10.481261] forcedeth 0000:00:06.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LMAC] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 10.481267] forcedeth 0000:00:06.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 10.481316] forcedeth 0000:00:06.0: Invalid Mac address detected: 00:00:00:00:00:00
[ 10.481319] forcedeth 0000:00:06.0: Please complain to your hardware vendor. Switching to a random MAC.
[ 10.994564] forcedeth 0000:00:06.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732 @ 1, addr 00:00:6c:6f:b7:63
[ 10.994578] forcedeth 0000:00:06.0: highdma pwrctl mgmt gbit lnktim msi desc-v3


Hmm. After googling, i've seen that mycard has a problem with getting mac address. Here is my udev rule for the card:


# PCI device 0x10de:0x0450 (forcedeth)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1a:73:03:0f:c1", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

This rule was using card's mac address. When i restart, udev switches to a random mac address and eth0 changes depending on this.
Solution to this problem is to use the id of the card instead of mac address.


# PCI device 0x10de:0x0450 (forcedeth)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ID=="0000:00:06.0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"


And when i restart the system, problem goes away and network manager automatically connects...

Related link,
nvidia-nforce-network-adapter-has-different-mac-adress-every-boot-569576