Installing from ISOs without burning them?

PTrenholme · 07-05-2007, 10:46 AM

You might want to look at the GRUB2 project. The 1.96 release is supposed to handle booting ISO images. (Note: I've never tried it, nor even installed GRUB2, so . . .)

b0uncer · 07-05-2007, 10:54 AM

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"If you learn RedHat, you will know about RedHat, but if you learn Slackware, you will know Linux."

Not exactly true...Slackware is just one kind of Linux, nothing god like.

Another reason, besides not having cd burners, to use iso images without burning them is that you save discs. Until a few weeks ago I was frustrated at using rw discs because I though I need a cd-rw of 700MB to burn cd images and in addition two DVD discs (DVD+RW and DVD-RW for both kinds of drives) in order to be able to install with all kinds of drives. Then I found out a nice app (imgburn if you're on Windows) that lets you burn cd images onto dvd...very nice, no need to use cdrw anymore

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I think that if your distribution have an usbboot.img image to write it to an usb pendrive and then allow you to boot from it, and in the instalation menu, a category to load the instalation files from a folder in the harddisk, this can help you.

I'd like to add that even if the installer doesn't directly have an option for "loading media from iso images" or so, it's probably possible. Slackware, as many others, offer you terminals behind the setup program that you can use to find, mount and use external resources that the installer doesn't include; therefore it's easy to install packages not asked during setup before rebooting (for example build a custom kernel right away). So if the installer doesn't seem to support installing from isos, you haven't lost anything if you were able to boot

try CTRL+ALT+F1 trough F6, and if you get a login terminal, you're on your way..

Janux_NET · 07-06-2007, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by b0uncer

Another reason, besides not having cd burners, to use iso images without burning them is that you save discs. Until a few weeks ago I was frustrated at using rw discs because I though I need a cd-rw of 700MB to burn cd images and in addition two DVD discs (DVD+RW and DVD-RW for both kinds of drives) in order to be able to install with all kinds of drives. Then I found out a nice app (imgburn if you're on Windows) that lets you burn cd images onto dvd...very nice, no need to use cdrw anymore

I'd like to add that even if the installer doesn't directly have an option for "loading media from iso images" or so, it's probably possible. Slackware, as many others, offer you terminals behind the setup program that you can use to find, mount and use external resources that the installer doesn't include; therefore it's easy to install packages not asked during setup before rebooting (for example build a custom kernel right away). So if the installer doesn't seem to support installing from isos, you haven't lost anything if you were able to boot

try CTRL+ALT+F1 trough F6, and if you get a login terminal, you're on your way..

Hi!..

To respond the first:
I used "burning" like say "write", not the process that leads to an "unusable" disc.. just for clear..
And... I don't do all that I mentioned in the "tutorial" just because I want to save discs, just because I dont have any drive to burn them..and this is the "idea".
But thanks anyway, is good to know about the software you mentioned..
Thanks for the program "tip"!

And for the second.. At the slackware setup, I have tried to make that you say.. to make it "read" from a mounted iso image, but at least for me, the setup could'n "see" the package files, and I have tried a lot!, so.. the solution -for me- at that moment, was what I described...

Regards!