Carl Hartung wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got a box without the space or power supply to accommodate a CD/DVD > drive > or burner without a great deal of hardware reconfiguration hassle. What it > *does* have is a presently unused 100MB boot partition. > > Does anyone have a short checklist or procedure for -- after I've loop > mounted > the .iso image to /media/dvd -- copying contents from the dvd or mini > boot .iso into the boot partition so I can boot the installation kernel from > grub? Once the installation kernel is loaded, I can manually mount the > partition containing the dvd .iso and then loop mount the image... I've done > this before... it's the actual booting into the installation kernel from Grub > that I need help with. > > TIA & regards, > > Carl > > I am not sure if this is helpful. When I last installed 10.2 into a machine that had two DVD drives I found them both to be defective. Probably needs cleaning. I also have a USB external DVD drive. I plugged it into the machine and was amazed that the BIOS found it and that it installed perfectly.
I have also installed by having a USB harddrive with a Linux partition on it and the entire DVD copied to the drive with all the directories and files. I did this by mounting the image with the -o loop option and then a recursive copy to a directory on said media. If this method interests you I could probably look at my notes and send you the rest of the proceedure. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
