[Morphix-devel] How to boot from morphix iso? (without burning a CD)

[Alan H. <ho...@ma...>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Zhang Le wrote:

> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:50:57 +0800
> From: Zhang Le <ej...@16...>
> To: mor...@li...
> Subject: [Morphix-devel] How to boot from morphix iso?
>
> Hello,
>   I just download a morphix light gui iso and burn it with a cd-r. It
>   looks cool! Now I want to add some Chinese support to it (Maybe a
>   Chinese minimod). Before I start I want to know is it possible to boot
>   from a morphix iso file.  (I currently have a knoppix iso on a vfat
>   partition and boot it with a floppy image)
>
>   I look at the morphix CD and find no floppy image there. Is there
>   other way to boot from hard disk? I do not want to burn a CD every
>   time I test a new iso.

I meant to do this myself when I was playing with Morphix but as I was not
doing much it was worth one burning a few CDs (shame most of my hardware
was only willing to work with Knoppix 3.2).

Before someone ported it to windows Frozen Bubble was also available as
a demo CD img and at the time i used these instructions to save using a
CD.

If you are using windows 95/98 (not ME or NT or 2000) you might consider
using loadlin and then you might not even need a floppy disk.

http://www.frozen-bubble.org/index.php?menu_item=1
(near the end of the page)

If you don't want to waste a CDR, you can download the hard-disk boot
floppy, hd.img and the program image, fbimg.bz2 (21 Mb); then make the
boot floppy, save the program image on one of your Windows partition (C:\
will make things easier later on) and once you're booted, indicate the
filename to the program (Unix filename, e.g. without the C:\, and use /
rather than \ to specify sub-directories; if the file was saved under
C:\fbimg.bz2, just type in "fbimg.bz2")


>                                      Sincerely yours,
>                                             Zhang Le

It would be really nice if this documentated nicely somewhere (a Linux
HOWTO perhaps?) for all the people who use Live CDs, in fact I wish i had
looked this up and not burned all those CDs for RedHat 9.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/