Re: [Sheflug] iso file systems

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

Can you create (or already have) a small - size of the iso image (680
M?) partition on your hard disk? dd the image there with
dd if=<mandrake.iso> of=/dev/hdx
substituting the name of your image and the partition, then boot with
root=/dev/hdx ro
from a boot-disk... I don't know though how this mandrake disk should work
- is it supposed to be boot and root disk? Or are you supposed to boot
from a floppy, which will start an installation programme on it? Tomsrtbt
(minimal linux on 1 floppy) might help too.

HTH
Guennadi

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, ross wrote:

> On Craig Andrews wrote:
> > Get the iso and make a mountpoint (say, /mnt/iso) and type this:
> >
> > mount -t iso9660 /path/to/iso/image.iso /mnt/iso -o loop
> >
> > And access it under /mnt/iso
> >
> 
> ok.... i finally got the iso image i was after of mandrake8.0(beta). i am 
> able to mount it under /mnt/iso using the commands given above :-)
> trouble is, i won't be running linux when i try to access these files as the 
> intention is to install linux from these iso images. mandrake do not offer 
> (at first sight) a boot disk for iso images. does anyone know how i can now 
> install linux from these files?
> 
> do i create a custom boot disk and mount the file system manually during 
> install or can it be a little more automated than this?
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
>         Ross
>                ross.h [at] ntlworld.com
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
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