[ Ubuntu-BD ] installing hardy direct from ISO

[Russell John]

Hi Ammar bhai,

I'm sorry it didn't work out.

Hardy comes with ntfs-3g by default and as my friend tells me,
read/write is no longer a problem.  Try it and let us know your
experience. :)

Thanks,
Russell


On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Ammar Karim <ammar.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> russell bhai,
>
> Sorry I didn't reply earlier. My downloaded ISO was corrupt and I
> didnt get around to installing hardy for a while. But I just tried
> this method with a new ISO download.
>
> Unfortunately this method did not work like a cd install and after
> showing a few things not found, booted into an "initramfs" she'll. I
> don't know what next to do through here, so I've rebooted to my feisty
> and will burn a cd now.
>
> I really need ntfs writing now, as the windows drives have got a nasty
> rootkit virus file that avast detects, kaspersky blocks, but neither
> can remove.
>
> Here comes Hardy on my pc.
>
>
> On 4/26/08, Russell John <russell at linux.org.bd> wrote:
>> Hi Ammar bhai, nice to hear from you.  Hope you're doing well.
>>
>> You can try the same way you did it on Mandriva.  I'm describing the
>> process below, though I don't guarantee it to work.  Try it and let me
>> know if it worked or not.
>>
>> 1) Create a new directory where the ISO file will be mounted:
>> sudo mkdir /mnt/hardy
>>
>> 2) Let's mount it:
>> mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso /mnt/hardy
>>
>> 3) Now copy the kernel and initrd images from /mnt/hardy and copy them
>> to /boot (file names: vmlinuz and initrd.gz)
>>
>> 4) Now edit the bootloader. I'm assuming that you're using GRUB, but
>> if you use LILO, then let me know.
>> sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
>> or
>> sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
>>
>> Add the following:
>>
>> title Hardy Install
>> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz
>> initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.gz
>>
>> 5) Reboot your system and choose Hardy Install from the boot menu.
>>
>> Let me know if it works or not.
>>
>> - Russell
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Ammar Karim <ammar.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Well I'm reading up on the email exchanges. I have downloaded Hardy
>>> desktop
>>> CD (not alternate) but have not burnt it on a CD and installed it yet.
>>>
>>>  I've had a problem upgrading to feisty to gutsy using the alternate Gutsy
>>> cd (it just doesn't work). So I will be backing up my /home/user files and
>>> then doing a format and installing Hardy.
>>>
>>>  Can anyone suggest if I can do an install direct from the iso or
>>> extracted
>>> iso files on a hard drive partition (I used to do this for Mandriva)
>>> without
>>> having to burn a CD? Its ok if I have to make a boot floppy disk... but
>>> please share if this is possible.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ammar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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