Tapan Naskar wrote: > Dear all > Instead of booting from live cd in cdrom, I wants to > boot from the image of the cd stored in hd. How this > can be done?
Well Tapan, if you are using KNOPPIX or DSL (Damn Small Linux) you can use the inbuilt option of writing the bootable cd image to the hard disk. I havent tried it out myself (I have only a notebook, no PC, so dont want to experiment with it!) but I know it can be done. Pls do let us know if you are successfull! This is what it says about DSL on thier FAQ [http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-hd-install.html]: How to install: 1. Create a app. 250-300MB Linux partition with cfdisk or fdisk (e.g. /dev/hda1, /dev/sda2) 2. Boot into DSL by using you CD and enter the terminal. 3. Execute "dsl-hdinstall" by typing "sudo -u root dsl-hdinstall" (without the quotes) and enter the just created partition (e.g. /dev/hda1, /dev/sda2) This will make a ext2 file system and copies the CD contents to it. A couple of specific changes are made after that (see end of script) 4. Execute "mkliloboot" by typing "sudo -u root mkliloboot" (without the quotes) Enter the partition that your install is on. This will create an "initrd" with the needed modules and will setup "LILO". And as for Knoppix, here goes [http://ftp.knoppix.nl/os/Linux/distr/knoppix/KNOPPIX-FAQ-EN.txt]: Assuming the KNOPPIX system has already booted, installation approximately follows this procedure: 1.) initialize a free partition with the ext2 file system and mount it on /mnt/knoppix, for example. 2.) cp -a /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/knoppix/ 3.) set up /mnt/knoppix/etc/fstab and /mnt/knoppix/etc/lilo.conf for the new system (Caution: symlinks in /boot initially point to the Ram disk!), run lilo. 4.) mkdir /mnt/knoppix/home/knoppix && \chown knoppix.knoppix /mnt/knoppix/home/knoppix 5.) Reboot, try the system out, fix any broken settings. (No guarantees.) Best of Luck! -- - Prem ---------------------------------------------------- Prem Kumar Aparanji M: 00919830631687 [Kolkata, WB, INDIA] http://scorpfromhell.blogspot.com http://allwirelesstechs.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
