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Specialsauce
January 12th, 2006, 03:56 AM
i need to figure out if its possible to boot from a livecd without burning it...
erikpiper
January 12th, 2006, 04:07 AM
????????????
Confused...
Is this a joke?
Specialsauce
January 12th, 2006, 04:13 AM
i didnt realize my question was THAT stupid :'(
erikpiper
January 12th, 2006, 04:16 AM
No. I think I am just confuzed.....
I think you can boot into linux under another OS.. See DSL... BUT a live CD is a ISO (Disk image..)
Specialsauce
January 12th, 2006, 04:19 AM
yes, i have an iso, ut no blank CDs. i want to boot from the ISO... is it possible to like mount it or somethin and then boot from the mounted location...?
erikpiper
January 12th, 2006, 04:21 AM
Mabe if you could get the computer to boot from USB or something...
I thought you meant on other computers...... Mabe you can put it on a spare HD and use grub.......... I really dont know how.. :(
BSDFreak
January 12th, 2006, 04:29 AM
You'll need to boot a kernel off of your hard drive (or floppy) and have the mount tools on there so you can mount it as a loopback device. I'd extract it instead and boot it with Grub/Lilo.
Burgundavia
January 12th, 2006, 05:09 AM
This is actually quite simple, provided you know what are you are doing or being flamed. Basically you need Qemu and a whole lot of RAM. Qemu is a disc emulator, similar to VMware but open source. It can be installed out of the ubuntu repos, in universe.
Then head to the command line and type "qemu -cdrom YOURLIVECD.iso"
That should do it.
Corey
Specialsauce
January 12th, 2006, 05:52 AM
This is actually quite simple, provided you know what are you are doing or being flamed. Basically you need Qemu and a whole lot of RAM. Qemu is a disc emulator, similar to VMware but open source. It can be installed out of the ubuntu repos, in universe.
Then head to the command line and type "qemu -cdrom YOURLIVECD.iso"
That should do it.
Corey
thank you
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