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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 13 2004,11:52  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

When making an image you state you need to load boot img from CD. can this image work for any iso? Or do I need to load one for each cd? Some of my cd's are non bootable ie data disks. can I make a boot file to run say autoexec.bat or inf or even setup programs.

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There are only two kinds of boot image file: .BIF extracted from bootable CD, or .IMG stands for floppy image. ISO ot .BAT/.EXE is not supported directly.
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PostIcon Posted on: Jul. 03 2004,14:00 Skip to the previous post in this topic.  Ignore posts   QUOTE

Wouldn't it be the BEST if we could boot from ISO images without extracting the content first :)

Imagine the following:
Disk
   \WinXP\WinXp.iso
   \Win2k\Win2k.iso
run \WinXP\WinXp.iso
No BIF! no .bin!

That would be the best.

I am not even sure that it is technically possible though! Because even if you load the ISO and make it boot, the applications running on a CD is not aware that it is running off an ISO, and if you have a "virtual CD driver", maybe the application will not see it, i mean you should have a layer between the ISO and the programs on that ISO to make it transparent for them that they are running off an ISO.

But when a CD image like WinXP will boot, it might destroy/unload the "layer" that is between it and the actual ISO image.

Tell me what do you think guys.

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