[X-Unix] booting iso's

[Raoul Armfield]

Long, Jason wrote:
> 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??? 

The only time I have seen that done is in VMWare.  Where you can tell it 
that one of the CDRom drives is a ISO file and you can boot from it. 
However it is not possible or at least very difficult to install an OS 
from it.

Raoul

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> Jason Long
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> 
> 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?
> 


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Raoul