Re: Newbie installation questions

[Risto Suominen <risto.suominen@gmail.com>]

Hello Geoff,

2014/1/17, Geoff Down <geoffdown@fastmail.net>:
> a) What am I doing wrong please?

To me it sounds right, but I'm no expert on hard disk installations.

> In a previous attempt I got the installer to see an ISO in a different
> partition *on the same hard disk* (disk0) as the installer. But I
> aborted that install at the partitioning stage as I assumed that the ISO
> image would in fact be destroyed in the partitioning process, leaving
> the installation hanging.
> b) Was I right? Or can you install from an image on the same hd?

I think you were: you cannot. Unless you use a separate partition that
you don't touch during the installation.

Risto