[syslinux] How to boot a compressed CD-ROM image from disk

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Feb 10 12:44:10 PST 2005


Mr Tyrese wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:54:55 -0800, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> 
>>Mr Tyrese wrote:
>>
>>>If my understanding is correct, then this method says that it's
>>>possible to boot an ISO from the network??
>>
>>No.  It may, however, be possible to boot the *contents* of an iso from
>>the network.
>>
>>        -hpa
>>
> 
> Sorry - I think this is what I meant! Say for example, I have an ISO
> with ...... a linux installation, - can I boot that?

Maybe.  The point is that the Linux installation needs to be adapted to 
get its contents from the network, it's not transparent.

	-hpa




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