Re: How to test an iso without bruning it on a cdrom

vincent delft wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to boot an iso without burning
> it on a cdrom/dvd.
>
> Does any one have a working idea ?
>
> - via virtualisation ? 
> maybe a feature of a vmware tool or equivalent
>
> or 
>
> - via an external disk ? 
> maybe simulate a cdrom with an usb disk 
>
> or
>
> - via a specific boot loader ?
> I've read that knoppix have a specific grub parameter
> "bootfrom".
>
> Thanks
>   
vincent -

I've handled testing my FreeSBIE ISOs in three ways.

1. Burning ISOs to a CD-RW disk. This is handy because I don't end up
with a bunch of disks that I can't use but slow because you still have
to burn the disk.

2. Use Qemu, VMware, or some other virtual machine technology to launch
the ISO as a live CD.

3. I'm currently mounting the ISO to my FreeBSD file system to make sure
all of the files I need are ending up in the ISO. While this won't
actually test the ISO it does allow me to view the files in the ISO to
make sure they are there and look correct. These are the commands I'm
using for this:

mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/home/ben/FreeSBIE.iso -u 1
mount -t cd9660 /dev/md1 /cdrom

Ben

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