On 12/01/2009 07:16 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > But the question is: can one install from the stick in some way > if the machine does _not_ support booting from it? > The suggestion was that one should copy vmlinuz and initrd > from the stick to the hard disk, > and add a stanza to grub.conf to boot from this. > My question is: would clicking on "Copy to hard disk" at that point > look at the USB stick for the data to copy? > Something to think about - it is already using the USB stick as its source. The file system that is on the stick is a compressed file system, so it is already accessing it. When it does the copy to disk, it is coping the expanded version of the file system, not the compressed image. At that point, it does not care where the compressed image is. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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