How To Install bootcd on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bootcd on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is bootcd
bootcd is:
Build an image of your running Debian System with the command bootcdwrite. You can also build a bootcd ISO image via NFS on a remote System. When you run your system from CD you do not need any disks. All changes will be done in ram. To reuse this changes at next boot time you can save them on FLOPPY with the command bootcdflopcp. If booting from your CD-drive is not supported, booting from FLOPPY is possible. It is possible to install a new system from the running CD with the command bootcd2disk. Bootcd2disk can also find a target disk, format it and make it bootable automatically. Bootcd also supports lilo, grub, initrd, udev, lvm, transparent-compression ISO 9660 fs and syslinux/isolinux. The included FAQ describes how bootcd can do online or offline backups of other Linux distributions, resulting in restore-bootcds. The bootcdbackupwizard helps to create online backups.
There are three methods to install bootcd on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bootcd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bootcd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bootcd
Install bootcd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bootcd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bootcd
Install bootcd Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bootcd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bootcd
How To Uninstall bootcd on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the bootcd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bootcd
Uninstall bootcd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bootcd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bootcd
Remove bootcd Configurations and Data
To remove bootcd configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bootcd
Remove bootcd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bootcd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bootcd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bootcd package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
