azeem ahmad wrote:
> dd if=/dev/hdb of=myboot bs=512 count=1 >
GRUB fits on a floppy, if you remember them. You may not need to use a hard disk for it at all.
infact what i want to do is to install GRUB on a harddisk then point bootloader to the initrd and vmlinuz of isolinux so that it can boot the installer of linux. infact i want to make such a harddisk that contain linux iso images and boot linux installer so that i can be able to just put this harddisk into any computer, boot from this harddisk and start linux installation for that computer's disk
Regards
Azeem
How would this be better than installing from CD or DVD?
You can insert DVD & reboot faster than you can power off, insert drive, power-on & boot.
You can remove DVD faster than you can power off, remove drive, power-on and boot.
If CD is inconvenient (because you need to change disks), consider network installs. You can boot off the LAN. CD (and probably USB devices) and install off a network server easily, and you get to remove boot devices (if you needed them) sooner.
A laptop running Linux or OS X will make a fine install server. You need
a) DHCP server
b) tftp server
c) NFS or web server, I favour the latter as it gives me logs of which client installed what packages.
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