[X-Unix] booting iso's

[John Harrold]

Sometime in May Long, Jason assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Indeed you may be smoking crack... I don't think that's possible because
| once you reboot or turn off the Mac after mounting a ISO of some sort of
| installation and it prompts for rebooting then you do that I think it
| clears the cache and everything out to get ready to boot off the CD...
| But in fact the ISO is mounted is lost as you reboot so it has nothing
| to build or mount once it reboots, but indeed it would be nice if you
| could boot off ISOs  Where you hear that?? I wonder if it is really
| possible.... any one ever done this before??? 

I'm thinking of something a little more low level. I wasn't really trying
to boot off of a mounted partition. For some reason I though I could tell
the boot loader to boot from a file on one of the hard drive partitions.
Hold down apple+c (or what ever the key combination) and point the boot
loader to an iso:

device:/path/to/iso/something.iso

But hey the crack here is sweet like honey.

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