is this really possible?

can i :

1.) create a partition

2.) extract the iso to the partition

3.) copy lilo to floppy

4.) boot it?

if someon can give me more detailled instructions than what i have bbeen given or tell me that it's incorrect please to so.

#398658

what do you want to do?? I don't get it

#398671

i think he wants to create a live partition so he can test boot a distro without installing. is that right? if so, i have no idea. if not, i still have no idea. you'd have way better luck at one of the linux forums.

#398672

essensialy i want to rune a disk of linux which is not supposed to be installed on my hard disk and test it as i don't have a burner on this computer and i CAN'T put one in it

#398673

in that case, you're better off running vmware and mounting it as a virtual disk. still, it would need to be a live cd as opposed to an install cd, savvy?

#398684

As shmengie said, software virtualization is probably the easiest route. If you're sticking with wanting to extract and run the ISO without virtualization software, I would do the following:

1. Clear out an empty partition under Windows.

2. Go download a Linux distribution that fits on a floppy disk: http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/ and use that to format the empty partition to ext2/ext3 filesystem.

3. Use Windows + WinRAR to extract the ISO to the new ext2/ext3 partition. There are various free drivers for Windows that allow reading/writing to ext2/ext3 partitions.

4. Boot again using the floppy Linux distro from step 2 and create a boot disk that boots into the new Linux partition. Some boot disk guides are found here:

http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/bootdsk.html

http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorial...ndBootDisk.html

This is all theoretical by the way. I never tried this hehe...Don't blame me if your computer blows up. Using VMWare or its free alternatives are much less painful.

#398711

could someon link me some good software to create a vitrual disk drive so i can use the .iso? thnks

they prgram is a windows application and it tricks windows to virtual cannot boot my .iso as i have to rune th e os fomr a disk!

#398720

if you want virtual disk software, then use daemon tools.

but with what you wanting to do, I would suggeste vmware. you can get a free trial.

#398750

i think i had posted a source that linked to an article that explained how to create a live usb disk. maybe you can use the same for a partition?

EDIT: i guess you already saw that post

#399124