Booting LiveCD contents... from harddisk...

vishal_gen2 · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 7

Hi all,

Just curios to know if it is possible to .... somehow...save the contents of liveCD ( .iso file ..) on harddisk and possibly boot the system from harddisk itself.

I don't want any other application to run... apart from what can be done from live CD itself.

slam_head · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject:

The easiest way to do that would be to boot into the livecd and tar the contents to a mounted disk, and then run grub on it. Good luck.

vishal_gen2 · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 7

could u be more illustrative ..... i m a sort of newbee in handling linux internals....

ansient · Guru Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 445 Location: Argentina

Boot from the livecd or wherever. Mount a copy of a downloaded .iso (NOT an actual mounted livecd) with "-o loop" and use "rsync -a" to copy the contents to some partiton. Then install grub.

vishal_gen2 · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 7

Ok... let me try this one out...

In case i find my self in some trouble ... i will get back to u guys...

Thanks so far ... for giving me a startup.....

vishal_gen2 · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 7

oh... i m in sort of a problem...

since i need to install GRUB for running the saved OS. ... and i did the same.... got GRUB from net.. but now i m into new trouble....
for Installation of GRUB ... 'make' is required.... and to my worst fear ... make is not provided in the liveCD version...

can i anyway get out of this situation.... help me !! " and more ...make will be using GCC inside... i have to get Gcc too -- thats additional .." ... .problems are increasing ... as i progress ahead...

any clues !!!