[X-Unix] booting iso's

[Bert Knabe]

On May 5, 2005, at 7:12 PM, John Harrold wrote:

> Ok, I could be smoking crack, but I believe that I read somewhere that 
> it is
> possible to boot from an iso without writing it to a cd. Is this 
> possible?

Man, you're taking me waaaaay back to the pre-powerpc days. In those 
days of yore the Mac actually kept power to RAM long enough for RAM 
contents to survive the reboot cycle. You could install an OS on a RAM 
disk and as long as you didn't actually shut down, restart and run from 
the OS on the RAM disk. But that's not booting from an ISO.

Bert Knabe
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