HD Install :: HD-Install without FDD or CD-ROM Drives?

So is there a way to download the DSL iso file and mount it on my other Ubuntu partition and then kickoff the install process without booting DSL??? is it possible?

Give a little more info. Do you have a seperate partition for the DSL image to reside on? What bootloader are you using?

I have 4 partitions:
Ubuntu about 4 GB
SuSE about 4 GB
Common about 10 GB
Empty (for DSL) about 100 MB (can be made larger if needed)

I'm using Grub as the boot loader.

Thanks for your help.

I'm not near a grub machine right now so I'll give a basic setup.

First you need to mount the iso and copy the /boot and /KNOPPIX folders to the partition you want to use. I got the impression you know how to mount it so I won't cover that part.

Now go into your grub menu.lst and add an entry like this....

title DSL
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda5
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz

This is basic and may get you booting. This was assuming an install on the hda5 partition. If it does, you can go into the grub folder inside the DSL filessystem and look at the menu.lst file in there to see some of the typical DSL grub entries to get a full functioning Frugal install of DSL.

Sorry I can't give more detail but my memory is fuzzy today without seeing it.

Let us know....

Chris

Thanks Chris for your help. I did what you suggested and I was able to boot all the way until it reached a point it needed to find the Knoppix file, but it couldn’t find it. I looked in the isolinux configuration file, and I don’t see any path before the Knoppix file name… it looks I’m almost there but need to make isolinux find this file. Any way to do this??

Thanks.

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