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Boot from ISO?

Discussion in 'Other PC Software' started by jheibeck, 2004/10/19.

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  1. 2004/10/19
    jheibeck

    jheibeck Inactive Thread Starter

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    An IMA file is a floppy image. An ISO is a CD image. It's possible to boot from floppy images as with the Ultimate Boot CD. Anyone know how to do the same with an ISO? Having a few ISOs on a CD and being able to choose which to boot from would be very cool.
     
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  2. 2004/10/20
    Steve R Jones

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    Several tools here to help:

    Misc. CD-R/W Tools
    http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwcdrtools.html



    AutorunCD Assistant is a tool that can help you create an Autorun CD, to be used with your existing files. It offers a 5-step wizard that creates the autorun.inf file and automatically checks the integrity of start page and icon. If you are familiar with creating an autorun.inf file, you could easily do this yourself, but if you are not, then this tool is quite helpful.
     
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    TonyT

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    You don't actually boot from an iso image. When making a bootable cd, the iso is extracted and burned to the cd, making a cd with all files and directories. To do this, you need the boot files, which usually are included in the iso image. Or, you can use your cdr software to "create a bootable cd" and you'll get prompted for your bootable floppy disk and the software will extract the boot files from the floppy to the cd, then you add your desired software.

    see:
    http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/
     
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    I realize that. My wish is to be able to make several ISOs for different purposes and put them all on 1 CD with a menu to allow selection of which ISO to boot from. Actually boot from the ISO file in the same way that Ultimate Boot CD allows booting from floppy images (IMA or IMZ).
     
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    TonyT

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    You can do what you want using Bart's PE Builder. I have a disk that can boot a "live xp desktop', 'live linux', dos, etc., with 600 MB of apps and utilities. I can even boot to a live xp desktop w/ networking and run adaware\spybot and get the updates. Same w/ AV apps.
     
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    Hi Tony. You mean you have 1 cd with different ISOs (or something) that allows you to boot XP OR Linux OR dos from the same CD? This sounds like what I want.

    I don't remember anything in Bart's that would allow the creation of anything like this. Can you elaborate? Point me to some instructions?

    I have a Bart's PE disk with the progs/utils I need on it, networkable (even in Novell environments), but it's only ~100MB. Likewise a customized Knoppix CD, also ~100MB. Also, I have FreeDOS, ~50MB. I would like to have ALL THREE of these on 1 CD with a boot menu for choosing which to boot.

    After all, 1 CD is better than 3.
    Thanks
     
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    TonyT

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    Thanks for the link TonyT, but either I'm dense and am not getting the idea or I'm not stating my desires correctly. This website is talking about creating a CD that contains multiple FLOPPY images (or is this where the "I'm dense" part comes in). Does a CD have the same boot address as a floppy?

    What I'm wanting is like a dual (or multi) boot hard drive, but on a CD. Instead of floppy disk images (filename.ima), I can use "filename.iso "? That will work?
    :eek: :confused:
     
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  10. 2004/10/21
    TonyT

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