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Burning Crunchbang ISO directly to HDD

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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.
 
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punisher186 said:
I'm hoping it is possible to install the distro without having to burn the ISO onto a CD or flash drive.

:confused: 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/install-any-linux-distro-directly-from.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Linux-without-a-CD-or-USB-Stick-Using-UNetBootIn



Edit:

I formatted the HDD in NTFS.
Linux doesn't use ntfs anyway
 
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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.
 
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