[Klug-general] Booting Options

[George Prowse]

rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> Hi all its me again Probably bothering youwith Trivia but.....
>  I have been Playing with the old laptop that Nathan kindly donated to 
> me, and, while I have made some progress in understanding, I have two 
> problems which I cannot seem to find the answer to on Web Sites. 
> Given that the Laptop will boot from Hard disc or floppy and does not 
> have the option of Cd boot up or USB connections is it possible :
> 1) to divert the boot process to a Cd at GRUB stage or is it already 
> committed to load from hard drive?
> 2)Can I boot from the current OS (DSL) , mount CDrom do an install 
> from a live disc or iso image of the required system?  
>  Regards R.

You can mount any iso in any linux and use it like a partition:

mkdir foo
sudo mount -o loop /path/to/iso foo

That will mount your iso in a folder called foo in the directory you are 
currently in (home probably) so name it what you want.