# Installing without booting livecd **URL:** \ **Category:** SUSE Studio / Studio Express\ **Created:** [June 4, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-without-booting-livecd/22704 "2012-06-04T18:16:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-without-booting-livecd/22704/1 "2012-06-04T18:16:02Z")
Hello, it here a package or some other way to have an install option in preboot menu, so I won’t have to go to desktop of the live cd to install my distibution? Thanks for any help or suggestion ## – mihamobili mihamobili’s Profile: [http://forums.opensuse.org/member.php?userid=67481](http://forums.opensuse.org/member.php?userid=67481) View this thread: [http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=475831](http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=475831) ---
**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-without-booting-livecd/22704/2 "2012-06-04T18:23:48Z")
> [@mihamobili](#): > > Hello, it here a package or some other way to have an install option in > preboot menu, so I won’t have to go to desktop of the live cd to install > my distibution? > > Thanks for any help or suggestion Hi AFAIK if you install the YaST live installer it will automagically add a grub option to install direct. – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.1 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.1.10-1.9-desktop up 22:34, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.05 CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-without-booting-livecd/22704/3 "2012-06-04T20:21:29Z")
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:16:02 +0000, mihamobili wrote: [color=blue] > Hello, it here a package or some other way to have an install option in > preboot menu, so I won’t have to go to desktop of the live cd to install > my distibution? > > Thanks for any help or suggestion[/color] ISTR that you can also build a preload ISO. From the doc: Preload ISO (.iso) Use the preload ISO, if you want to boot from CD/DVD and dump it to your hard disk without knowing too much about the details of the dump procedure. A preload ISO is an image wrapped as a bootable CD/DVD. After you have booted, it offers to overwrite your hard disk. If you select Yes, the image will be dumped to your hard disk. Jim – Jim Henderson openSUSE Forums Administrator Forum Use Terms & Conditions at [http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C](http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-without-booting-livecd/22704/4 "2012-06-05T10:16:02Z")
If you add yast installer you have to boot to desktop and install from there, i don’t want to boot but install before booting. I would like to have install in menu where you chose to start your livecd. Also i don’t want preload ISO, because there is an option i would have to keep the stuff that is on HD now, which preload ISO would delete all so that isn’t good also sorry. ## – mihamobili mihamobili’s Profile: [http://forums.opensuse.org/member.php?userid=67481](http://forums.opensuse.org/member.php?userid=67481) View this thread: [http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=475831](http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=475831) ---
**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-without-booting-livecd/22704/5 "2012-06-05T14:28:10Z")
> [@mihamobili](#): > > If you add yast installer you have to boot to desktop and install from > there, i don’t want to boot but install before booting. I would like to > have install in menu where you chose to start your livecd. > > Also i don’t want preload ISO, because there is an option i would have > to keep the stuff that is on HD now, which preload ISO would delete all > so that isn’t good also sorry. Hi No, not the desktop but the ‘grub’ menu offers an ‘install to harddrive’ option. – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.1 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.1.10-1.9-desktop up 1 day 18:37, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-without-booting-livecd/22704/6 "2012-06-05T16:06:02Z")
Well not in my case, if it would be i wouldn’t be asking if there is any special thing to do. I also added autoyast2 and autoyast2-installer but i still dont have the install option in grub only in yast after i already open the desktop. ## – mihamobili mihamobili’s Profile: [http://forums.opensuse.org/member.php?userid=67481](http://forums.opensuse.org/member.php?userid=67481) View this thread: [http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=475831](http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=475831) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/installing-without-booting-livecd/22704/7 "2012-06-05T19:02:46Z")
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 07:16:02 +0000, mihamobili wrote: [color=blue] > Also i don’t want preload ISO, because there is an option i would have > to keep the stuff that is on HD now, which preload ISO would delete all > so that isn’t good also sorry.[/color] Really wouldn’t have had a way to know that that was something you didn’t desire, since you hadn’t mentioned this before. 🙂 Jim – Jim Henderson openSUSE Forums Administrator Forum Use Terms & Conditions at [http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C](http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C)