On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:46:38 +0300 Aleksandar Kostadinov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:39 PM, J. Bakshi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:27:07 +0300 > > Aleksandar Kostadinov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > [.....] > > > >> Start freedos and run the windows > >> installer off it... not sure what exactly your use case is though. > > > > [...] > > > > I use a usb pendrive to carry all the Linux installer i.e. debian, ubuntu > > as well as some useful tool like gparted, then puppy etc..... > > > > Now I like to have the win XP installer image too in that pendrive. > > If I can boot freedos via grub then there would not be a problem to > > have win XP installer. Has anyone already tried that ? > > You surely can. But you may need another partition to host DOS and > configure grub to run it like you run windows with grub in a > multi-boot setup on HDD. Nice to know. But I think I have to extract files from the .iso and copy those within the DOS partition; unlikely the grub's ability to boot directly from .iso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
