Looking to install Linux from hard disk

[myelvis]

Hi all,

First of all let me highlight my constraint

cannot boot my system from the bootable CD . Consider i am not having CD drive as well as floopy dirve .


Looking for a way to run the linux setup from within WINDOWS XP ....

Don't know if its possible

Really appreciate ur help

 

[Fuzznuts]

its not possible. you gonna need to boot from something wether it be a floppy, cd,PXE network card or a slave hardrive you cant install from within windows it wont work.

unless your using virtual pc of course but thats a different ballgame

 

[Bleep]

Pretty confusing question. You do not have a CD drive on your computer?

Bleep

 

[Need4Speed]

Originally posted by: myelvis
Hi all,

First of all let me highlight my constraint

cannot boot my system from the bootable CD . Consider i am not having CD drive as well as floopy dirve .


Looking for a way to run the linux setup from within WINDOWS XP ....

Don't know if its possible

Really appreciate ur help

well i guess youre not gonna install linux then

 

[MasterSamwise]

You guys should make an effort to be a little bit more helpful...

You might read up on Cgywin or such linux distros as Zip Slack. If you have a FAT or FAT32 partitioned drive then I believe it is possible to run one such. (Cgywin provides Unix functionallity in a windows.exe format.. It is not installing linux per say.)

Hope that helps some.

Master Samwise

 

[Bleep]

You guys should make an effort to be a little bit more helpful...

Well the initial question was and still is a little confusing. How did he ever load windows without a CD Rom drive?
Bleep

 

[drag]

well he could of coppied the files (i386 file for instance for a NT-based machine, or .cab files for a win9x machine).

But you would still have to boot off of something.... Like a floppy disk??? Or a Zip drive or something...


I mean you need to be able to partition the drive to install anything, and by definition that's suicide if you try to do it from the same drive your working from.

You have to have some form of removable media, don't you?!?

Otherwise if it's a FAT partition you can run something like ZipSlack or Dragon linux or something that runs off of UMSDOS (fat with posix extensions added on into special files)

You can run those things in a folder from a fat partition and it can coexist well with Windows. Delete the folder and it uninstalls the linux stuff. But these distros were ment for linux users and convienence installs and have vastly limited functionality.

If it's NTFS partition your SOL. You have to repartion stuff in order to run linux. I don't know how you would do that without having a seperate drive to boot from.

 

[decode]

1) Install Windows from a CD.
2) Remove CD-ROM drive and sell it.
3) Working Windows installation without CD-ROM drive.

 

[myelvis]

Thanks for making fun guys

sorry i asked the right question at the wrong place . Sorry i expexted this website to be have ppl with some brains but look at me !!! i am again proven WORNG *wink*

"Decode" seems ur type of ppl are everywhere on web .. Go Kid !!!Play games ... its not ur age to come up with logical answers coz everytime u wud try to be logical u will come up with something like

1) Install Windows from a CD.
2) Remove CD-ROM drive and sell it.
3) Working Windows installation without CD-ROM drive.

c ya guys
Thnaks MasterSamwise . I will surely look into ur response .

GO back to play those 3D games guys

 

[TonyRic]

myelvis, it actually is simple. Download Fedora and create the boot floppies. You can point it to the disk/partition/directory to find the rpms. SuSE Download edition (you can install via ftp from this one) will install just fine this way. If you go to ftp.suse.com, you will find the complete installable code tree.

 

[Fuzznuts]

Originally posted by: TonyRic
myelvis, it actually is simple. Download Fedora and create the boot floppies. You can point it to the disk/partition/directory to find the rpms. SuSE Download edition (you can install via ftp from this one) will install just fine this way. If you go to ftp.suse.com, you will find the complete installable code tree.

he has no cd or floppy drive so boot floppies arent much use

 

[drag]

Yes, he wants to install a operating system with absolutely no ability to boot off of anything other device other then his harddrive.

No floppy, no CD, no zip drive, nothing!

How do you go about repartitioning it or anything?

I told him he could run something like zipslack or dragonlinux (if it's still around) from a FAT partition using UMSDOS, but that wasn't good enough for him. Anyways UMSDOS distros are slow, and if his partition is NTFS he is screwed anyways.


This whole thread is just pretty stupid if you ask me.

Buy a friggin cdrom for greif's sake. No sense in making it more difficult then it already is. What? You got something against the ability to install programs/games, and playing music CDs?

Hell a floppy drive would be enough and you can pick those things up for like 5-10 dollars!

It's like asking:

"Hey guys I want to connect my computer to the internet, but I don't have a nic card, a modem, a USB/Firewire port, or any serial ports and I am not going to buy any of those things. How do I do it?"

 

[TonyRic]

My mistake. I thought he had a floppy drive. But, with no internet/network access or external bootable disk and no intention to buy one. Well, then there is a real problem here and it isn't a hardware issue necessarily. WAIT will osmosis work? j/k

 

[Spyro]

This looks like a job for peanut linux!

Seriously though, just go here and follow the directions in install.txt for installing from harddrive. If you need any help then go ahead and read the howto.txt file and you might want to look over it anyway.

HTH

 

[drag]

Sorry for the rudeness, but is there any reason why you can't boot from a cdrom, Like a chipset that doesn't support, or a lack of a CD-burner?

You can get distros on CDROMs mailed to you for dirt cheap, like 4-8 bucks a cdrom. That is by far the easiest way to go.

 

[groovin]

some distros like RH have really good hardware detection. Ive installed RH9 on a HD and then moved to another computer and had it migrate all the settings (with a minimal amount of problems). just make sure all the hardware is on the HCL.