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One way of accomplishing this is to use a virtual machine of some kind, but that don't let you install in "the real world"
I'll fire up my reserve box and see what results I get.
I'm too tired after working long hours well into this morning so it'll have to wait until tomorrow at the earliest
It seems that things don't happen in the right order (or maybe I'm just tired) but you are on to something so it would be nice if you could investigate further
Possible to boot ISO from HDD?
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Re: Possible to boot ISO from HDD?
Due to technical reasons I think this won't be easyKernelJ wrote: If a HDD ISO booting method could be made simple ...
What's wrong with the live CD? Come on, CD- or DVD-burners really aren't that expensive anymore. Take Bosnia for example: Given the civil war they had down there and given the vast destruction in some areas one might regard Bosnia as being a "third world country" ... but even there: Those people who have PC's also have a CD- or DVD-burner ... even if it's not the newest model, so what: it works and it's enough to burn a Linux ISO.KernelJ wrote: it could also encourage novices to use the system.
Yes, they did something stupid like that with one of the last releases, BeOS R5 PE if I am not mistaken. They used a boot loader camouflaged as Windows *.EXE file that would load BeOS after a double-click ... but the thing wouldn't always work as promised (e.g. it got sometimes easily confused if there were multiple partitions). Having a clean Live CD means that Windows has nothing to do with the boot process A live CD clearly is superior.KernelJ wrote: I think BeOS worked along these lines - no separate partitions, no CD burning.
Possible to boot ISO from HDD?
I cannot tell you what is wrong with your scripts but:
HOWTO: Install Ubuntu Linux without burning a cd
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=28948
May be of use?
Nick
HOWTO: Install Ubuntu Linux without burning a cd
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=28948
May be of use?
Nick
kernelj I think this might help
http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?opti ... ic=12114.0
And read this while your at it
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/PoorManInstall
I Tryed it on FAT partition once and it worked not only with PcLOS but also with Ubuntu , Kubuntu , puppy , Havent tryed it on mint but you could
After all it is a grub PMI How To. MIght be useful to you
http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?opti ... ic=12114.0
And read this while your at it
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/PoorManInstall
I Tryed it on FAT partition once and it worked not only with PcLOS but also with Ubuntu , Kubuntu , puppy , Havent tryed it on mint but you could
After all it is a grub PMI How To. MIght be useful to you
I've been trying to do this for days. I have my reasons for not burning a DVD, it doesn't matter. I've added vmlinuz and initrd to a grub entry and put the file in an empty ext3 partition. As soon as I boot into it there's lots of streaming text on the screen about various hardware being detected and then nothing happens.