I seemed to have lied - I could have sworn that you could do it, but
apparently not. My sincerest apologies about that, because I
honest-to-G-d thought you could, and I thought I had done it.

However, if you've got GRUB (should work with LILO), you can still do
something really similar very easily. See this:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~colohan/docs/fedora_upgrade.html

Again, sorry, I feel very stupid right now.

-DMZ

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 16:32 -0400, Ben Stern wrote:
> David Zakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Install some sort of minimalist distro with GRUB onto the computer. Put
> > the CD image onto the hard drive, and use GRUB to boot the image from
> > there. Some people still seem to strongly prefer LILO (the reasons are
> > still a mystery to me), but GRUB is definitely what you need in this
> > particular instance. Best tool for the job and such.
> 
> How do I get GRUB to boot an ISO image on a disk?  Do I dd it onto the
> partition?  Format the partition ext3 and then dd an ISO into a file?  Mount
> the CD and copy the entire filesystem file-by-file?
> 
> I'm really not trolling.  I've been arguing with GRUB at work for a while to
> make it do the right thing with a CD on a box that insisted on not booting
> off of the CD.
> 
> I fixed that system by netbooting it and flinging my Fedora CD into the
> trash, but if it ever comes up again, I'd like to know a solution other than
> "netboot Slackware."
> 
> Ben
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