[Ilugc] Boot ISOs wthout buring them

[Aanjhan R]

Hi Kumar,

On 8/27/06, Kumar Appaiah <akumar at ee.iitm.ac.in> wrote:

> Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> I have a few ISO images of various GNU/Linux and BSD installer CDs
> (minimal). I was wondering whether I could use GRUB to boot them from
> my existing GNU/Linux system, avoiding the need to burn them onto a CD
> to start the installation procedure. Is there a way to do this?

How about using Qemu?
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Its as simple as this. If you have a iso image say GnoWare.iso
$ qemu -cdrom /media/hda8/GnoWare.iso -boot d


Regards,
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Aanjhan
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