Ubuntu's soon to be released Dapper Drake has a live CD with an option to install from the CD. ( ithink). It is still in the late beta testing stage atm though. On 5/4/06, Bert Visser <bourdon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Esa Linna schreef: > >>> >>> Any tips - what files should I copy ? >>> >> >> The ones I have seen come with a program to do the hard disk >> installation for you. I don't remember what it's called though. >> > I am not talking about program that installs it in the hard disk. > Docking: > > "Dyne:bolic solves the problem of istallation in a very simple way: > there is no installation! you simply copy a directory and this is > called "docking". > In dyne:bolic this only consists of copying one directory from the CD > to the harddisk, you don't need to change anything of your partition, > just copy a directory in it: drag the dyne/ folder from the CD on the > icon of your harddisk, that's it! > And of course, when you want to uninstall the dock is as easy: just > delete the /dyne directory in your harddisk!" > > http://dynebolic.org/manual/dynebolic-x140.en.html > http://lab.dyne.org/Docking > > This is extremely handy, and I am a little paranoid with hard disk > install programs since I don't want to back up my data too often... > > Musix GNU+Linux has the option to copy the entire CD to the harddisk (like all knoppix derivates; cheatcode: tohd=/dev/hda1 for example) and boot from there; no need to install anything but to boot (just the initial part) you will need the CD (with cheatcode: fromhd=/dev/hda1 or whatever). I use a separate partition (on my machine /dev/hdb5) for this and it works great. All the details are on the CD under Boot options. regards, Bert
