On 05/11/09 02:09, Marc Herbert wrote: > don fong a écrit : >> question: how can i boot the livecd distro from a >> hard disk partition, hopefully with the persistent >> option? > > I assume you absolutely want to boot a "real" machine. This is too bad > because the easiest way from far to boot a ISO image is to use a > virtual machine using VirtualBox, qemu, etc.
Marc, thanks for your response. yes, this is a real machine not virtual. >> i have found a lot of pages >> describing how to do this with a USB stick, > > Could you please post here the "best" URL you found? i'm afraid i am not expert enough to judge which is best. there were so many it made my head spin. > 1. Extract all the ISO image content to the root of > somediskpartition. That is, just loopback-mount the image and copy all the > content. > > 2. "Convert" some cherry-picked content of "isolinux/isolinux.cfg" to > your GRUB configuration (in /boot/grub/menu.lst). > > That's all. i followed your directions and was able to boot the distro. now, i would like to get the persistence feature working, again to the hard disk. again, all the stuff i've found on the web is about how to do it with a USB stick, or says it can be done with a hard disk but doesn't give enough detail for my needs. any thoughts on this? -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list