[Quantian-general] about knoppix bootfrom

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 2 February 2007 at 22:58, xiaopeng hu wrote:
| The Quantian.iso is put in /dev/sda5,which is ntfs.
| I input "knoppix bootfrom=/dev/sda5/Quantian.iso",but Quantian boots from
| the cdrom.
| I want to use the iso file in my hard drive.
| what's the matter?

Did you read the appropriate howto, in this case

	http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/howto_winboot.html

It explains that you would place the (large, dvd-sized) iso somewhere,
e.g. in

	/dev/sda5/quantian.iso

and then *boot using a corresponding cdrom*, in this case a Knoppix 4.0 cdrom
so that the same kernel is used, and redirect that cdrom at its boot prompt
to switch usuing

	knoppix bootfrom=/dev/sda5/quantian.iso

That worked for me.  From your text, I am not sure if you used the same
approach or something else.

| Thank you!

You are welcome.

Dirk

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