[Ilugc] Boot ISOs wthout buring them

[Aanjhan R]

On 8/27/06, Vijairaj <vijairaj.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/27/06, Kumar Appaiah <akumar at ee.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
> >
> > Dear ILUGC,
> >
> > I have a few ISO images of various GNU/Linux and BSD installer CDs
> > (minimal). I was wondering whether I could use GRUB to boot them from
> > my existing GNU/Linux system, avoiding the need to burn them onto a CD
> > to start the installation procedure. Is there a way to do this?
>
>
> Definitely possible, I have installed that way many times.
> The procedure is like this:
> 1. loop mount the iso image and copy the kernel, ramdisk image, and the
> modules to some partition accessible from grub.

Oh ok. You wanted to install things and not just run like a live CD!
Sorry. Did not see your question properly. Yes looping works. I have
also done it quite a few times

Regards,
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Aanjhan
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