Live CD without CD?

[Chris Snook]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Chris Snook wrote:
> 
>>> I have a machine with no CD drive,
>>> and I was wondering if I could run the Fedora Live KDE CD
>>> from the hard disk -
>>> I mean by copying the ISO file to the hard disk.
>>> abstracting the isolinux directory,
>>> and adding an approriate grub stanza to boot from this?
> 
>> livecd-iso-to-disk (part of the livecd-tools package) was designed to do
>> this
>> with USB drives, but it should work for an IDE/SATA/SCSI drive as well. 
>> That said, what you probably want is to find a USB stick that's at least 1
>> GB, and put it on that.
> 
> Actually, I already tried that, but this particular machine -
> I think it is about 8 years old - did not seem to support USB booting.
> 
> I'll try using livecd-iso-to-disk to install on a new partition.
> Not quite sure how I'll boot from it, though.
> Will it be sufficient to make the new partition active?

I think it will suffice to make it the only partition marked bootable in fdisk. 
  It'll need to be a primary partition, not an extended partition.  It really 
depends on your BIOS though, if you're not chainloading from the bootloader on 
the MBR.

-- Chris