Installation Tips

From antiX

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 fromiso or frugal install.

The basic steps are as follows.

• Create and format (if you don't already have one) a partition to boot fromiso.
• 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 grub on sdb1 (hdb1), LinuxB on sdb6 (hdb6)

• Make a directory/folder in sdb6 called antiX.
• Download antiX-M7.iso and the available vmlinuz and initrd.gz files 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-M7.iso en xres=1024x768

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

boot

You can get the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files from here:

http://mepis.gabston-howell.org/download/released/AntiX/antiX-fromiso

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=p3m1l82y3zb

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/3196168376/vmlinuz

To extract the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files from the antiX-M7.iso

1. mkdir -p /mnt/sdb6/antiX/test
2. mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /mnt/sdb6/antiX/antiX-M7.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/boot/vmlinuz /mnt/sdb6/antiX/
2. cp /mnt/sdb6/antiX/test/boot/initrd.gz /mnt/sdb6/antiX/