Re: Poor man's install variation

Alex de Landgraaf <alextreme-qWit8jRvyhVmR6Xm/[email protected]> Sat, 8 May 2004 11:33:20 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.morphix.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Kermit,

When using tohd, all files are just copied over to the given harddisk partition.
So all you need to do is a 'cp -a /path/to/iso/* /mnt/hda1/'. You don't have to
format the partition as an iso to have fromhd work :)

cheers,

Alex

Quoting Kermit Jones <[email protected]>:

> I think this is the right list...
> 
> I'd like to do a variation of the poor man's install.  However, the FAQ 
> says you run "morphix tohd=hda1".  That assumes you have a cd.
> 
> I've been doing this intellibuild, but instead of burning each iso to 
> test it, can I extract the iso to a hard drive of another computer and 
> boot with the "morphix fromhd=hda1" ?  If so, what is the command for 
> properly extracting the iso or can I format the hdd as iso (which I've 
> seen done to simulate virtual cdroms).
> 
> Thanks,
> kermitjunior
> 
> 
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