Re: iso and disk space problem

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 17/08/14 10:22 PM, sp113438 wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:21:13 -0400
> Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> > On 17/08/14 05:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> > > On 17/08/14 04:24 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > > I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out -
> > > > burned is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little
> > > > slowly, so I thought about grml-rescue which allows grub to boot
> > > > an ISO from the HD. Runs fine, but immediately ran into trouble
> > > > updating the distro when it ran out of disk space. Seems the limit
> > > > is the size of the original ISO. Is there any way of increasing
> > > > this? It's about 700kb right now which doesn't allow much room for
> > > > anything.
>
> grml-rescue does not work on other ISO's, only on grml I thought.
>
> Please correct when I am wrong.


  Grml loads any iso placed in the /boot/grml directory.

  It modifies the grub2 menu, adding a listing for whatever iso
you put in there and Grub2 will load it.
It's handy for that...but as I found out, unless there is a way to
increase the file size of the iso, you can have problems :)



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