Well that's part of an experiment,I did installed using USB but the partition I made on USB was FAT16 and it can not store a 4.2 GB file since FAT has that constraint. By the time your message came I did installed via USB but did not exactly did what I am asked. zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdb1 and then copied business CD of debian to the 250 MB partition newly created but this limits partition to 250 MB.
This method did worked. Coming to another method I have done it already on Open Suse in Debian I have not yet been able to figure it out or rather say I never got a time to do so which I am doing it now. Here is a link to my message on this community itself http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup/browse_thread/thread/ae92c2c31d6e6869/271a39025f5ea138?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=install+linux+without+using+a+hard+disk+velocity#271a39025f5ea138 On Mar 28, 11:41 pm, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > If your ISO is bootable then you can use a utility called Unetbootin which > comes in Windows and Linux flavours to make a bootable usb key from the ISO. > This will allow you to install it to the usb drive that you want to boot > from. Aside from that I can only suggest that you borrow a usb DVD ROM from > someone that has one or put a drive into another machine, install it and > then put it back into your computer. You are really limiting yourself. > Almost every OS installs from a CD or DVD. > > Roy > > On 27 March 2010 15:31, Velocity <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was able to install syslinux on a partition on USB and debian > > business install cd, I do not want to install packages from internet I > > have a DVD ISO downloaded want to install from the 4.2 GB downloaded > > ISO via USB I do not have access to CDROM or network either so PXE is > > not possible on the said machine. > > What should I look for some one who have already done it please reply. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > Group. > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit our group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+ > > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > > ME" as the subject. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
