On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 02:55:25PM +0200, Olive wrote:
Hello,
Does any one know if it is possible to convince lilo (or grub) to boot
from a .iso file that I have on a partition. This would allow me to test
live CD's without wasting a CD each time.
I don't know about that, but you could try them in Qemu or similar.
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