Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, my name's phil and i'm not a programmer - other than writing > perl scripts to make my working day easier - but i haven't joined this > list as a coding member. I had an idea that i thought should go > public to see if it was possible to do. In short my idea is this: > > Have a Fat32 partition that can have a bootable ISO stored on it - > Fat32 for Win/Linux compatibility - that can itself be booted. > eliminating the need to burn disks and eliminating the possibility of > read errors through dust, finger prints or misuse.
Sorry, but this unfortunately possible in a general way. The only thing that is possible is loading files from an ISO 9660 filesystem that is stored in another filesystem (the situation like you described). But loading a file is not enough to boot an OS, the OS just does not understand what is going on. So if you want an OS stored on a ISO 9660 image to understand such setup, the only option is modifying the OS. In the case of GNU/Linux, you might have a look at using a loopback filesystem as the root filesystem. How to make this possible is not in the scope of this list. When the kernel supports it, you can use the GRUB 2 `loopback' command. But because you are not a developer (as it seems) who is interested in hacking kernels, you just have to know it is not possible. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
