linuxnube
July 9th, 2008, 07:01 AM
I've only been using Ubuntu for a couple of days so I don't know if this is even technically possible, but here's what I'd like to do.
I want to be able to reinstall Ubuntu (8.04 at this stage) whenever I need to but my laptop has no optical drive. I've already created an /home partition, but was wondering if its possible to put the CD image onto another partition so I can boot from that on the HDD when I need to reinstall.
The machine boots from GRUB. The drive is currently partitioned into a five partitions:
1.Vista (NTFS)
2.Shared (ext3)
3. /home (ext3)
4. /Ubuntu (ext3)
5. Swap
I was thinking it might be possible to add one more partition with an image of the Hardy install CD, and have this show up in GRUB so I can opt to do easy reinstalls over partition 4 above when required (at the rate I tend to mess things up this might be quite frequently!).
Is this possible? I have no idea where to start with this, so if anyone could point me in the general direction to achieving this I would be most thankful.
I want to be able to reinstall Ubuntu (8.04 at this stage) whenever I need to but my laptop has no optical drive. I've already created an /home partition, but was wondering if its possible to put the CD image onto another partition so I can boot from that on the HDD when I need to reinstall.
The machine boots from GRUB. The drive is currently partitioned into a five partitions:
1.Vista (NTFS)
2.Shared (ext3)
3. /home (ext3)
4. /Ubuntu (ext3)
5. Swap
I was thinking it might be possible to add one more partition with an image of the Hardy install CD, and have this show up in GRUB so I can opt to do easy reinstalls over partition 4 above when required (at the rate I tend to mess things up this might be quite frequently!).
Is this possible? I have no idea where to start with this, so if anyone could point me in the general direction to achieving this I would be most thankful.