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

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:59:18 +0200
"Thilo Schwidurski" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to install Linux with GenToo and instead of burning a CD I
> rather like to boot the live cd iso file from HD - like I was able to
> with the(currently on my box installed) Mandrake distribution. So my
> question is, where to get (or build) the approriate boot disk image?
> I tried a Slackware bare image file but that needs a root disk - but
> before more RTFM I wanted to have confirmation that this approach will
> be of any luck, e.g. if there is some special "iso filesystem (?)
> driver" on the boot disk needed for the usage with the mount command
> (that I would use to attach the live cd iso).
> 
> Regards,
> Thilo.
> 
There was a how-to for that to do it with 1.2 that worked for me.
I am not sure it is still there and if it will work with 1.4.
If it's not there anymore PM me and I see what I can dig out.

Prost,

Klaus