Installing without booting livecd

SUSE Studio / Studio Express
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Hello, it here a package or some other way to have an install option in
preboot menu, so I won’t have to go to desktop of the live cd to install
my distibution?

Thanks for any help or suggestion

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Hi
AFAIK if you install the YaST live installer it will automagically add
a grub option to install direct.

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On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:16:02 +0000, mihamobili wrote:
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Hello, it here a package or some other way to have an install option in
preboot menu, so I won’t have to go to desktop of the live cd to install
my distibution?

Thanks for any help or suggestion[/color]

ISTR that you can also build a preload ISO. From the doc:

Preload ISO (.iso)

Use the preload ISO, if you want to boot from CD/DVD and dump it to your
hard disk without knowing too much about the details of the dump
procedure. A preload ISO is an image wrapped as a bootable CD/DVD. After
you have booted, it offers to overwrite your hard disk. If you select
Yes, the image will be dumped to your hard disk.

Jim

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If you add yast installer you have to boot to desktop and install from
there, i don’t want to boot but install before booting. I would like to
have install in menu where you chose to start your livecd.

Also i don’t want preload ISO, because there is an option i would have
to keep the stuff that is on HD now, which preload ISO would delete all
so that isn’t good also sorry.

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Hi
No, not the desktop but the ‘grub’ menu offers an ‘install to
harddrive’ option.

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Well not in my case, if it would be i wouldn’t be asking if there is any
special thing to do. I also added autoyast2 and autoyast2-installer but
i still dont have the install option in grub only in yast after i
already open the desktop.

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On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 07:16:02 +0000, mihamobili wrote:
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Also i don’t want preload ISO, because there is an option i would have
to keep the stuff that is on HD now, which preload ISO would delete all
so that isn’t good also sorry.[/color]

Really wouldn’t have had a way to know that that was something you didn’t
desire, since you hadn’t mentioned this before. :slight_smile:

Jim

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