[X-Unix] booting iso's

[John Harrold]

Sometime in May John Harrold assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 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

Something like the following:

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/howto_winnocd.html

Were the knoppix image is copied into c:\boot\ and grub can boot from it.

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 What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, 
 and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought 
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 --Gandhi
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  gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key B23241CB
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