Live CD without CD?

Chris Snook csnook at redhat.com
Mon Dec 8 22:36:12 UTC 2008


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I have a machine with no CD drive,
> and I was wondering if I could run the Fedora Live KDE CD
> from the hard disk -
> I mean by copying the ISO file to the hard disk.
> abstracting the isolinux directory,
> and adding an approriate grub stanza to boot from this?

livecd-iso-to-disk (part of the livecd-tools package) was designed to do this 
with USB drives, but it should work for an IDE/SATA/SCSI drive as well.  That 
said, what you probably want is to find a USB stick that's at least 1 GB, and 
put it on that.

-- Chris




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