On 24/12/06, Will Davies <wmd04r@???> wrote:
> My laptop doesn't have a optical drive and I'd really like to test drive
> some live CDs.
> I've tried to find what I need on the web but keep finding specific
> instructions for
> individual distros.
> I feel there ought to be a way of loading from an iso image on disk or
> storing the image contents
> in its own partition that is maybe made to look like a cd in some way.
> Does anyone have an experience of this or pointers to offer.
> TIA
>
> --
> Will Davies
>
Will,
Try looking at loadlin (you can google for it)
It is a tool to boot linux from within Windows98.
I don't think it can work on ISO images, but you copy the contents of
the CD to the FAT32 windows partition and make sure all the
directories are off the root of the windows FAT32 partition.
The following has quite a good howto:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Loadlin_Install
James
