Burning Crunchbang ISO directly to HDD

punisher186 · Oct 25, 2012, 06:17 AM

I'm trying to install CrunchBang onto a secondary HDD I found today. I'm hoping it is possible to install the distro without having to burn the ISO onto a CD or flash drive. I formatted the HDD in NTFS.

Drone · Oct 25, 2012, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by punisher186

I'm hoping it is possible to install the distro without having to burn the ISO onto a CD or flash drive.

And what does it mean? What OS is on that computer? If it's empty you can't install nothing. Flash or CD are required.

But if it's Windows/Linux machine you can install distro from HDD and keep windows/linux installation at the same time.

http://www.instantfundas.com/2007/08...ctly-from.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Linux...ing-UNetBootIn

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I formatted the HDD in NTFS.

Linux doesn't use ntfs anyway

punisher186 · Oct 25, 2012, 10:54 AM

Two drives. C: is my main Windows 7 disk and I have a blank D: HDD that I want to install the distro on. NTFS works, it just has problems. ext4 will be used I get to partitioning.

95Viper · Oct 25, 2012, 11:15 AM

These sites may help, however, it may take some patience:

Boot from ISO without Burning to Disk
Install Linux from ISO image on hard disk without using a DVD ROM or CD Drive

Oct 25, 2012, 06:17 AM	#1
punisher186 Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 72 (0.09/day) Thanks: 1 Thanked 39 Times in 18 Posts System Specs	Burning Crunchbang ISO directly to HDD I'm trying to install CrunchBang onto a secondary HDD I found today. I'm hoping it is possible to install the distro without having to burn the ISO onto a CD or flash drive. I formatted the HDD in NTFS.

Processor:	AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
Motherboard:	ASUS M4A88T-M
Cooling:	Stock HS and case fans
Memory:	G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) F3-10600CL8D-4GBHK
Video Card:	EVGA GTS 450
Hard Disk:	Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB
Optical Drive:	TSSTCorp TS-H492A
CRT/LCD Model:	CML 154XW
Case:	Cooler Master Elite 310
Sound Card:	Onboard VIA VT1708S
PSU:	Antec Earthwatts 430W
Software:	Linux for computing, Windows 7 for gaming

System Name:	Asus M60J
Processor:	Intel Core i7 720QM
Memory:	4GB
Video Card:	NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
Hard Disk:	x2 320GB Seagate
Software:	Windows 8

Processor:	AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
Motherboard:	ASUS M4A88T-M
Cooling:	Stock HS and case fans
Memory:	G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) F3-10600CL8D-4GBHK
Video Card:	EVGA GTS 450
Hard Disk:	Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB
Optical Drive:	TSSTCorp TS-H492A
CRT/LCD Model:	CML 154XW
Case:	Cooler Master Elite 310
Sound Card:	Onboard VIA VT1708S
PSU:	Antec Earthwatts 430W
Software:	Linux for computing, Windows 7 for gaming

Oct 25, 2012, 11:15 AM	#4
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Oct 25, 2012, 10:54 AM	#3
punisher186 Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 72 (0.09/day) Thanks: 1 Thanked 39 Times in 18 Posts System Specs	Two drives. C: is my main Windows 7 disk and I have a blank D: HDD that I want to install the distro on. NTFS works, it just has problems. ext4 will be used I get to partitioning.

System Name:	Ha/AhHa
Processor:	QX9650 SLAWN C1/i7-980x
Motherboard:	GA-X48_DS4 (F3B bios)/Gigabyte x58A-UDR3 v 2.0(Fh1 bios)
Cooling:	CNPS9900 LED/H60
Memory:	8 Gig of G.Skill F2-8800CL5D/24 Gig Corsair Vengence
Video Card:	Galaxy GTS 465/Gigabyte HD6950 unlocked w\ 1536 shaders
Hard Disk:	150 VRaptor,160 WD, 500 WD,2X 74 Gig VR(RAID0)/SanDisk Extreme 120, 2 WD VR(Raid 0),Seagate 1 TB
Optical Drive:	Asus/HP dvd1270 and Samsung
CRT/LCD Model:	ViewSonic VX2250wm-LED/Asus 266H
Case:	CM-690/CM-690 II adv
Sound Card:	On board (Realtek)/On board (Realtek)
PSU:	PC P&C 750/PC P&C Silencer 950
Software:	Windows 7 Build 7601 SP1 - 64 bit/Same

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