Re: Installtion from HD instead CD (boot disk image)

Oops, just noticed that "reply to all" is needed to get the proper adress to
write back to the group. Sorry for that.


From: "Ewan Mac Mahon" <[email protected]>


> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:11:30PM +0200, Thilo Schwidurski wrote:
> > The (assumed) problem with this approach is, that I cannot overwrite the
> > Mandrake partition, what I actually want to.
> >
> You're right, but in that case I'm not sure where you were going to put
> the iso on the disk.

There is already an extra (not the Mandrake) partition containing the iso.
Actually I want to use the existing Mandrake partition and its swap
partition.

> If you want to do the whole thing from the hard disk
> it's going to require some juggling, the details depend on how your
> partitions are layed out at the moment.

There should be no problem (see above).

> Plan B is to use a live system
> that doesn't need a CD burner - Tom's Root and Boot[1] runs from a floppy,
> and I think it has everything you need to install gentoo. Someone here's
> bound to know for sure though.

That might do it. Thanks for your help, Ewan.

Regards,
Thilo.