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PostIcon Posted on: Jul. 03 2004,14:02  Skip to the next 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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Hmmm... I seen that EasyBoot support images of diskettes and that it loads them. I wonder why we cannot use the same principle for CD images. We decompress the ISO content to a virtual drive.

Is it because the diskette images are small and are loaded to memory/virtual drives? and the CD images are too big to be loaded this way?

Hmm...time for thinking....
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