Installation Tips

Boot from iso on hard-disk
It is possible to boot and install from an antiX.iso file on hard-disk. You will need a spare partition on your hard drive and an existing grub menu (on livecd, floppy or hd). This is sometimes known as booting fromiso.

The basic steps are as follows.


 * Create and format (if you don't already have one) a separate partition to boot fromiso. For antiX it needs only be 800MB in size. I use ext3 format.
 * Download antiX.iso file to a folder and extract to the same folder the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files.
 * Add the correct entry to the existing grub menu.

Example: LinuxA with grub menu on sdb1 (hdb1), spare partition (ext3) on sdb6 (hdb6)


 * Make a directory/folder in sdb6 called antiX.
 * Download latest antiX.iso to /mnt/sdb6/antiX
 * Customise the boot/grub/menu.lst of LinuxA on sdb1 (hdb1). Add this entry to the end.

title antiX

kernel (hd1,5)/antiX/vmlinuz vga=791 fromhd=/dev/sdb6 fromiso=/antiX/antiX.iso en xres=1024x768

initrd (hd1,5)/antiX/initrd.gz

boot

To extract the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files from the antiX.iso

1. Using mc (midnight commander).
 * Navigate to the directory where the antiX.iso file is kept. Press 'Enter'
 * Navigate to the antiX folder. Press 'Enter'
 * Highlight vmlinuz file, press F5, and copy to your antiX folder on sdb6.
 * Highlight initrd.gz file, press F5, and copy to your antiX folder sdb6.

2. Using command line
 * 1) mkdir -p /mnt/sdb6/antiX/test
 * 2) mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /mnt/sdb6/antiX/antiX.iso /mnt/sdb6/antiX/test

Now copy the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files from the mounted iso image to the directory


 * 1) cp /mnt/sdb6/antiX/test/antiX/vmlinuz  /mnt/sdb6/antiX/
 * 2) cp /mnt/sdb6/antiX/test/antiX/initrd.gz /mnt/sdb6/antiX/