On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 10:01 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:58:36PM +0300, Salvatore Iovene wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 02:55:25PM +0200, Olive wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Does any one know if it is possible to convince lilo (or grub) to boot > > > from a .iso file that I have on a partition. This would allow me to test > > > live CD's without wasting a CD each time. > > > > I don't know about that, but you could try them in Qemu or similar. > > AOL. It works just fine. > > IIRC: > > qemu -cdrom live-cd.iso -boot d > > will boot a cdrom image You know, I hate you. I could never get that to work properly. But the first time I retry it now. (Of course installing kqemu and qemu stuff proper, and fixing the udev crap and the module loading issues), it just plain worked. DSL, KNOPPIX and other LiveCDs and install CDs. Maybe, just maybe... you show pretty good potential. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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