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    Daemon tools Linux?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by soldier0316, Nov 17, 2007.

  1. soldier0316

    soldier0316 Notebook Evangelist

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    Is it possible to mount a linux ISO and boot using Daemon tools?
     
    soldier0316, Nov 17, 2007
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  2. odin243

    odin243 Notebook Prophet

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    Are you talking about booting to a virtual disk? As far as I know, that would never be possible, as the virtual disk isn't loaded until after the OS is.
     
    odin243, Nov 17, 2007
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  3. andyasselin

    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    you can mount iso useing the mount -o loop

    not sure how mean boot it thought

    if you mean useing some like vmware or qemu to load and run boot im in virtual machine then yes
     
    andyasselin, Nov 17, 2007
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  4. Lysander

    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    I think he means skipping the burning the image to disk step and just install Linux straight away. In which case, no.
     
    Lysander, Nov 17, 2007
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  5. Amol

    Amol APH! NBR Reviewer

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    You could use VMWare to virtually install Linux. But physically installing it would be hard without a CD. Worst comes to worst, try installing from a USB Flashdrive
     
    Amol, Nov 18, 2007
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    timberwolf Notebook Consultant

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    If you've got the hard disk space available then the contents of some CDs can be copied to the hard drive, there is usually a lot of fiddling about that needs doing because you've got to shrink partitions and create new ones, and finally you've got the most risky bit when you install a boot loader into the MBR.

    http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html
     
    timberwolf, Nov 19, 2007
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  7. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    A blank CD is $1 at most. Just buy one and burn it, or send off for a free CD, or get a friend to download it. Basically, there's no way around putting it on some other kind of bootable media, and you can't use Daemon Tools. It's a good idea to have a Linux bootable CD around anyway, in case you reinstall Windows and accidentally screw up Grub, or need to do recovery of data or something.
     
    Pitabred, Nov 20, 2007
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