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using md-mounted ISO as NFS root for PXE booting and installing
AndThis.com novell support netware 6x install-upgrade novell support open-enterprise-server netware install-upgrade I don't believe you can just point it to an ISO file as such. You have to either mount the ISO as a volume, or burn it to a CD and mount that. -- Andrew C Taubman Novell Support Forums Volunteer SysOp

Installing from SuSE
Can I just copy it to somewhere on my system, do something to it, and then use the result of that to install a version of linux on my system? Thanks - Terry Egan "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. " --Albert Einstein you can mount iso images using the

Mount ISO Image
Before using this on a live production system you would want to have tried it and tested it thoroughly on an offline system close at hand. Is it possible to install from a mounted iso image, such as sid-amd64-netboot.iso? The instructions in debian-amd64-howto.html for installing into a chroot assume you're

Can I loop mount an iso image?
Peter Wu pete...@hotmail.com comp unix bsd freebsd misc Peter Wu wrote: - Install a minimal 4.7 system - Mount the ISO as /cdrom - Run the /cdrom/base/install.sh and got an updated I find a problem that I cannot convert the UFS1 to UFS2 by using the above approach although my system has been upgraded to 5.0.

/dev/ram0 for root fs
Below please find several mis-features and errors around mount and vnconfig which I found while trying to mount ISO images using vnconfig. ..... TXT -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 102691 11 Jun 01:32 INSTALL.HTM -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 59121 11 Jun 01:32 INSTALL.TXT -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 22502 11 Jun 01:32 README.

Mounting ISO images
You can burn it to CD-R and you'll have the original factory disc, from which you can install the software or whatever. How to burn an ISO using Nero: http://www.weethet.nl/english/cdrw_usingnero_iso.php Alternatively, you can mount the ISO file to a virtual drive and then install from it, using Daemon Tools:

FTP Install
I had installed from the MSDN ISO image originally using a trick (program) that a colleague turned me onto: Virtual DAEMON Manager. Which allows you to mount ISO images directly as drives (among other things). So instead, burned properly onto a CDR, then ran setup.exe from there. After installing, still failed in

Multi-Session Recording using image files
To read the filesystem from a RH install CD, you would have to do the following steps: 1) Mount the CD in the usual way, or mount the ISO file using the loopback device. 2) Find the floppy image used to boot, mount it using the loopback device or copy it to a floppy disk. 3) On the floppy you will find SYSLINUX

Installing FreeBSD from the ISO image
Make directories 1 to hold the ISO the other to mount the ISO to. "mkdir /mnt/home" # holds ISO "mkdir /mnt/os" # used to mount ISO Then use the network disk and run "network" to load module When done choose the install source and choose install from mounted directory using /mnt/os/slackware as the directory.

Any way to install 5.0 from ISO?
I want to install Linux from an .ISO image (the original boot CD) from partition D: What is "partition D:"??? Is this technically possible using a boot floppy? Could it mount the ISO image in DOS-mode and run the setup? You can't do shit in DOS-mode. What Linux are you talking about? Sybren -- The problem with the

Can I install Linux only using iso image?
I'm using Linux 2.4.3 as the host, various OSs as the guest: Does anyone know how I can install an iso9660 image as a CDROM drive for a virtual machine? Mount the ISO image using Linux' loopback device and then use Samba and the network neighborhood to view it. You could also try pointing the configuration to a

install 4.4
I want to install Linux from an .ISO ]image (the original boot CD) from partition D: ]Is this technically possible using a boot floppy? Could it mount the ISO ]image in DOS-mode and run the setup? ?? Not clear what you want. If you want to place the contents onto the hard drive and then install from the hard drive,

xcdroast - CDROM not present
Just hitting enter or using any of the graphic modes causes the screen to ge very dark gray, not quite black and to lock up. You can mount ISO images and navigate them as you would any CD file system. First, create a mount point: mkdir /mnt/iso_1 Then, you have to mount the image: mount file.iso -r -t iso9660

Mount an iso image?
Then I mount ISO image to /mnt/netboot with mdconfig and mount_cd9660, and boot PXE client. All is fine if we are booting into 4.11 (root mounted from MFS, sysintall runs and we able to install OS to local disks via NFS). But in case of 6.2-RC2 root mounted from NFS, not MFS: 192.168.13.1:/mnt/netboot on / (nfs)

installation doesn't starts in Virtual server?
"Igor' Robul'" i...@raduga.dyndns.org mailing freebsd questions On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:57:15PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: Is it possible to do an install with the ISO image _without_ burning a CD? If you have another FreeBSD or Linux PC and network then it is possible. Just mount ISO using 'loop' on Linux or vn

Installing yahoo messenger
Presumably this can also be used to mount ISO images from hard disk? Except I get an error message when I try: ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument Hmm. For instance, what I would like to do is build a Debian boot/install CD from the floppy images (the ones I've found were built using pre-release Woody images).

Installing Products Remotely using iManager Remote Product ...
I have used Samba and my linux box can see the windows share with the ISO's. Is it possible to update linux using the ISO's on my windows box? I don't have a CD burner so in the past I've mounted the iso file on the loopback device, copied everything into a regular directory then reboot and do a hard disk install.

Install Linux using bootp?
Mount the ISO image as a Virtual PC drive? Some people (IIRC) have had success using a tool such as WinImage or ISOBuster to extract the contents of the ISO to the local hard drive and installing from there. BTW, the .announcements newsgroup is for *announcements* related to Longhorn. .fundamentals is (we think) to

Things I don't like in Linux
If I've got an iso image on hdd, how do i mount it into the windows filesystem as a drive-letter such as 'F:' ? It is quite easy to mount an iso file on either I have found myself using more and more software in Windows that is freeware or shareware. I also seem to be using less and less MS software in Windows.

4.7 GB Gutsy Gibbon DVD Image won't fit on my 4.4 GB DVD Rom
I want to upgrade FreeBSD using the /stand/sysinstall facility. My ISP only allows me to download 1GB per month. I was wondering how much data I would I've used them to install on four or five machines already. Even if you don't have a burner, you can virtual mount the iso as follows: # vnconfig /dev/vn0c .