Installing an ISO (Such as DSL) with no usb/cd drive

spudtheimpaler · 02-26-2007, 04:40 PM

Hi all.

I have searched the forums and google to no avail, (difficult considering the search terms)

I have an old pc which i managed to force simplyMepis on some time ago. SM is too much for it to use really, and I was hoping to get a smaller distro on there. I've looked and am keen to experiment with DSL.

The problem is I don't have a working CD Drive in the machine, nor access to a usb pen (nor a floppy for that matter!). I have the iso on my mepis box but what can i do now to install it? (I'm expecting the answer to be nothing, but I can hope...)

If anyone knows of a method/any other distros I might try that I could install, I'd appreciate it.

Many thanks!

Mitch.

PTrenholme · 02-27-2007, 09:44 AM

You might be able to use the new GRUB2 (still, I think, "alpha," and only available in source) to boot from an ISO image. Here's a link to the project description. According to the current status WiKi, it does support ufs file systems, but it's not clear to me (and I haven't looked at the code) if it only supports ufs on a physical drive or if you can point it to an ISO image file.

spudtheimpaler · 02-27-2007, 09:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PTrenholme

You might be able to use the new GRUB2 (still, I think, "alpha," and only available in source) to boot from an ISO image. Here's a link to the project description. According to the current status WiKi, it does support ufs file systems, but it's not clear to me (and I haven't looked at the code) if it only supports ufs on a physical drive or if you can point it to an ISO image file.

Thank you - I will look into it tonight and get back to the forum if(/when!) successful.

spudtheimpaler · 02-28-2007, 04:15 AM

All responses are now going here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=532817