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bobtcowboy

01-13-2001, 01:58 PM

Hi all, I was just reading over at /. that Slackware 7.2 is out (http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/13/0121258.shtml) and I noticed one of the posts said that they always download the iso's... but don't have a cd burner or a cd-rom.... is it possible to install linux from .iso without burning to a cd? is this really obvious and I'm just kinda slow? How would one do it?

Thanks,
Bill

twist

01-13-2001, 02:06 PM

Whipping Boy

01-13-2001, 02:14 PM

Slack 7.2's not out...see my post in the "slack 7.2!!!!!" thread in Off-Topic.

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bobtcowboy

01-13-2001, 10:06 PM

In your case you'd be better off to download the distro, not the ISO. If you have linux installed you could download the ISO and then mount it via loopback and then copy the files out of that to a partition.. but by then you've taken up 1300Mb instead of the 650Mb that you'd take up by just downloading the distro itself.

Ok.... but is it possible to *install* it from a .iso without any former linux installation? I guess what I'm asking is can I do that from a FAT partition? or can I use partition magic to create a special partition to put this on? I'm pretty much a newbie (though I'm working on it) so what is loopback?

Bill

n2linux

01-14-2001, 06:16 PM

I don't think you can download the .iso and run it without burning it on to a CD.

I installed Mandrake 7.2 via Hard drive...but I had to download all 1.1 GB of files from FTP (not too bad over my school's T3).

There was an option during installation that asked how to install. The option was to either select the folders that contain Mandrake (with all the RPMs) or select an .iso image. I tried selecting the .iso (I has downloaded that too) but nothing happened.

If you have disk space, download everything that is necessary (mirror the FTP) onto a seperate partition (FAT, although FAT 32 worked with Mandrake) and make a boot disk (HD.img).

Good luck

Harvey

01-14-2001, 07:24 PM

Yeah no slack7.2 yet... should be about a month it seems.

but go get slack7.1 from www.linuxiso.org (http://www.linuxiso.org)

burn the .iso onto a cd, then boot from it and off you go!

UltraBuzz

01-14-2001, 10:34 PM

If you still have Windows on any of your partitions, you can use programs like Winimage "http://www.winimage.com/" or CDMage "http://cdmage.tripod.com/" to extract an .iso image to your fat partition. You can then do whatever you like with the files you just extracted.

optech

01-14-2001, 11:45 PM

i installed the slackware 7.1 iso from windows without a CD burner...
download the iso, go to http://www.isobuster.com and use it to pull the iso apart... it makes the iso act like a giant star.tar file...
then you just extact it to a directory, and install it

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twist

01-16-2001, 08:22 AM

loopback has many functions, but when dealing with iso's it allows you to read/mount it just like a normal filesystem.

Does basically what that winimage does, but in linux.

I still think you're better off just grabbing the individual distro files and not the ISO.

sssadams

01-16-2001, 10:55 AM

you can install Mandrake 7.2 from the iso if you also download the hd.img(hard drive install disk).Put the iso on either a fat32 or ext2 partition and when it asks for the path inculde the full name of the iso in the path.The hd.img you can copy to a floppyin linux with the dd command or in dos you will need the rawrite.exe program,in the /image and /dosutils folders
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