[Question] Bootable HDD

[HeRo]

Yo!

So I was planning to try and install Arch Linux, and just realized that my Flash Drive was missing O.O. I have no CD/DVD ROM.


So what I plan is (I don't know if it would work) is to create a Bootable HDD, and install the OS on that said drive. Do you guys think it would be possible? How do you suggest I do it? Should I just make a partition of that drive bootable and install it to the other partition?


Thanks in advance!

[s3my0n]

Well if you don't have usb flash drive and you don't have CD ROM then you can either go buy one of these and install arch normally, or you can follow this method I never tried, to install bootlader from windows to boot into arch linux installation:

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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=556230

[Snayler]

If you have Windows installed on that computer, you can use VMWare Workstation to install arch onto your HDD. There should be some tutorials on google.

[puddi]

easy, make a new file called boot.ini in your system partition and use the following code:
"sudo ren http://site.com/archlinux.tar.gz"
site.com being the server where it is hosted. after that reboot and keep hitting f14 key constantly until you see a small loading bar. your computer will do the rest.

[Snayler]

easy, make a new file called boot.ini in your system partition and use the following code:
"sudo ren http://site.com/archlinux.tar.gz"
site.com being the server where it is hosted. after that reboot and keep hitting f14 key constantly until you see a small loading bar. your computer will do the rest.

Lol! Well played, sir... Well played...

[HeRo]

Lol it is solved now. I just took my cellphone's micro sd card, convert it into a bootable drive, plug into a card reader and it worked fine.