deathwarder Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Is it possible to install linux from my hdd? It refuses to boot off of my dvd drive because it is connected to a raid controller, so booting off of the hard drive is really my only option. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41109-linux-from-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 you could restore the disk image to the hard drive and then install from there Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41109-linux-from-hdd/#findComment-293706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratsarsed Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Hello Soundless: " you could restore the disk image to the hard drive and then install from there " Could you explain that for a noobie ? Perhaps a link? -- Use a rotary telephone and never need to Press # 1 to Speak English Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41109-linux-from-hdd/#findComment-294474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesonic Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 You could also try with VMWare - it supports using physical harddisk partition as harddrive in virtual machine, e.g. create a custom virtual PC configuration in VMWare with your real harddisk partition being a disk in Virtual Machine, and use the .ISO file on your harddisk in VMWare's CD-Rom drive. That way you don't need to burn anything, and you get linux installed on your harddisk... though, I think giving your full harddisk to VMWare might be good idea so linux can install the bootloader into MBR, just make sure you wont install it onto windows in VMWare Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41109-linux-from-hdd/#findComment-294578 Share on other sites More sharing options...
schotty Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 mount the iso in loopback. Depending on the distro you may have issues. Fedora/RHEL/CentOS should work as would Ubuntu/Debian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback_mount mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41109-linux-from-hdd/#findComment-296682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Schotty, How will he be able to do that without getting to a shell prompt from a live cd. Maybe you can somehow try putting it on a usb stick, or can you not boot off those either? EDIT: I know freebsd can boot from a floppy and download the files there and install if you wanted. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41109-linux-from-hdd/#findComment-296702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 (edited) Comments deleted by user go here to find out why Edited February 9, 2007 by Dicenet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41109-linux-from-hdd/#findComment-296734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 Hello Soundless: " you could restore the disk image to the hard drive and then install from there " Could you explain that for a noobie ? Perhaps a link? now that i think of it, you would need to boot into mac the way i did it, which would require a boot dvd. there are programs in windows to do it, but i dont know them Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41109-linux-from-hdd/#findComment-296782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 (edited) Comments deleted by user go here to find out why Edited February 9, 2007 by Dicenet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41109-linux-from-hdd/#findComment-296793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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