Re: [Hampshire] how do I use a live cd without a cd drive

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Author: Will Davies
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] how do I use a live cd without a cd drive

> Emulation software like Qemu and VMWare support using ISOs to emulate a
> CD. This will give you the chance to play with live CDs without a
> physical drive. AFAIK there's no way to boot a machine directly from an
> ISO, but copying the contents of the ISO to a dedicated partition and
> configuring a boot loader manually might work.
>
>

Thanks Tony and others. I've only got a P3 1200 so the emulation option
is probably going to be a
bit too expensive. Oh well poking at boot loaders it is then. At least
it will be educational.

Will