HD Install :: Booting HD install from CD

I want to install DSL to my laptop's hard drive. It's a work machine so I can't install a boot loader. Can I install DSL to the hard drive and boot to the DSL partion using a CD? If so, how?

Try a poor man's install

Don't mean to sound like a complete moron, but what is a poor man's install? Playing with DSL at work the other day, it looks there is an option on the CD for booting to an install on the HD. Anything special for this option? Partion type for the install? Only certain partions? etc.

If you have a FAT32 partition on your computer, do the following.

Copy the following to the root of your hard drive ( c:\ )
* the KNOPPIX directory, and its contents
* the BOOT directory, and its contents
Restart and boot from your CDROM,
and at the boot: prompt, type dsl fromhd=/dev/hda1

This is a "poorman's" install, where the copy on the HD acts
just like the CD would, but only faster...

You could also use the floppy disk image, and boot from that as well.

In the true spirit of DSL Live CD, I will suggest that you use the liveCD
AS-IS, and begin to learn to use the extensions and backup procedures
to create your own customized environment using the hard drive space
for programs, data, and custom files, rather than using it
to duplicate what is already on the CD.

Take a look at these threads, and the variety of desktops and installed apps.
These are ALL from a LiveCD, using the HD only for STORAGE, not the OS.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=3353
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=3184

73
ke4nt

i guess it would be easy enough to set the windows bootloader to boot a poormans install, might be a nice easy way of saving time.

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