On Wed, Apr 6, 2016, 2:07 AM Samuel Sieb <samuel@sieb.net> wrote:
On 04/06/2016 12:58 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 16:32 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> One important issue is that you can't install to the drive
>> that you read the iso from
>
> "Partition" not "drive".
>
No, I definitely mean drive.  If you put the iso file in /home and try
to use it as the stage2, the whole drive will not be available in the
installer.  I could directly dd the iso to a partition and use that
partition as the stage2, but not as a file.
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There is a way to get grub to find and load kernel and initiramfs from an ISO file. The docs might help, but most likely read GRUB help@ archives. Failing that, ask on that list.

Chris Murphy