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<p><span class="autocomment">Boot from iso on hard-disk</span></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Boot from iso on hard-disk==<br /> <br /> 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). <br /> This is sometimes known as booting fromiso.<br /> <br /> The basic steps are as follows.<br /> <br /> * 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.<br /> * Download antiX.iso file to a folder and extract to the same folder the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files.<br /> * Add the correct entry to the existing grub menu.<br /> <br /> Example: LinuxA with grub menu on sdb1 (hdb1), spare partition (ext3) on sdb6 (hdb6)<br /> <br /> * Make a directory/folder in sdb6 called antiX.<br /> * Download latest antiX.iso to /mnt/sdb6/antiX<br /> * Customise the boot/grub/menu.lst of LinuxA on sdb1 (hdb1). Add this entry to the end.<br /> <br /> title antiX<br /> <br /> kernel (hd1,5)/antiX/vmlinuz vga=791 fromhd=/dev/sdb6 fromiso=/antiX/antiX.iso en xres=1024x768<br /> <br /> initrd (hd1,5)/antiX/initrd.gz<br /> <br /> boot<br /> <br /> To extract the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files from the antiX.iso<br /> <br /> 1. Using mc (midnight commander).<br /> * Navigate to the directory where the antiX.iso file is kept. Press 'Enter'<br /> * Navigate to the antiX folder. Press 'Enter'<br /> * Highlight vmlinuz file, press F5, and copy to your antiX folder on sdb6.<br /> * Highlight initrd.gz file, press F5, and copy to your antiX folder sdb6.<br /> <br /> 2. Using command line<br /> # mkdir -p /mnt/sdb6/antiX/test<br /> # mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /mnt/sdb6/antiX/antiX.iso /mnt/sdb6/antiX/test<br /> <br /> Now copy the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files from the mounted iso image to the directory<br /> <br /> # cp /mnt/sdb6/antiX/test/antiX/vmlinuz /mnt/sdb6/antiX/<br /> # cp /mnt/sdb6/antiX/test/antiX/initrd.gz /mnt/sdb6/antiX/</div>

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