On Friday 25 May 2007 16:00, Russell Jones wrote: > > However, I have situation where I can't boot from cdrom because the > > notebook doesn't have the drive. But, it can boot from USB. > > So, I thought I can boot from USB flashdisk from the Opensuse mini iso, > > and from there perform network installation of Opensuse10.2. > > Something like passing install=nfs://myserver:/src hostip=xxx.xxx.x.x etc > > etc. Sorry for the confusion. > > IIRC, you need to install grub and an MBR on the flash disk after > formatting it with, e.g. ext3. An ISO image will use the "El Torito" (I > think it's called) boot mechanism which works differently and is only > for CDs, DVDs, etc. You may be able to loopback mount the ISO and copy > the files to the disk, then use grub-install's --root-directory > parameter to make it bootable.
Thanks Russell, That sounds interesting. I'm gonna try it soon and report back. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 4:18pm up 2:31, 2.6.18.2-34-default GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org
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