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

Le jeudi 18 janvier 2007 à 15:44 -0600, Ben a écrit :
> 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

The same under Linux:
mount -o loop /usr/home/ben/FreeSBIE.iso /cdrom

> Ben
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