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I have a number of different ISO's of bootable cdroms with various tools/installers on it. These include WinXP installers in multiple languages, an UBCD, Linux Distro's etc.
Now I am getting a bit sick of dragging them all along. So what I am looking for is - some way to put a number of these (bootable) ISO's on a single DVD, not extracting them, but really put the complete ISO on the DVD. - I would then like to boot from the DVD and be able to select which ISO to actually boot from.
Is there any way to achieve this? I know that it is possible using disk images (on UBCD for instance) but until now I haven't found a way to achieve this with ISO's?
Any suggestions?
Basje Sep 23 2006
Searching for BCDW and/or Cdshell here on the board should give you enough examples to get a start. Also, it is possible for some images, or if you have enough memory, to use Grub4dos (search for "Grub4dos" on the board in posts by me, jaclaz), this is still experimental. | ||
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Well, I did a search for BCDW and ISO and one for CD Shell and ISO. Non gave good results. Could you perhaps point me to a command that is used to load the ISO via CDShell or BCDW?
Basje Sep 23 2006
Sorry maybe I induced you in this misunderstanding, BCDW and or CDshell are just ways to have a menu selection on the bootable DVD, the actual booting must be done by a specific loader, i.e., usually, isolinux/memdisk:
http://syslinux.zytor.com/iso.php http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/multimemdisk/
and/or diskemu: http://www.nu2.nu/diskemu/
and/or bootscriptor: http://www.cdshell.org/bootscriptor/
Here is a post on the UBC4WIN forums with a step by step howto: http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?sh…p;mode=threaded
As said, unfortunately, not all .iso's are bootable with the same method, and some are not easily bootable at all, so some experimenting will be necessary.
jaclaz Sep 23 2006
Well, it is probably me, but I cannot get a RAW ISO to boot from BCDW. I used Memdisk (via Isolinux and Bootscriptor) end tried Emudisk using Bootscriptor.
So I am lost now.
Basje Sep 24 2006
> I cannot get a RAW ISO to boot from BCDW.
Well, it means that you do not have enough memory (or the .iso image is too large).
If, as I think, the .iso you are trying to boot is a PE image, i.e. something that starts with a SETUPLDR.BIN, you can try the "proper" method for that kind of image, using two files SETUPLDR.BIN and RAMDISK.SY_ from a Server 2003 SP1 or later source, see here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=17923
or search on the board for "ramdisk.sys", but if your hardware has not enough memory or the .iso file is too big, it won't work.
On the isolinux page there is a reference to this post: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2002-October/001135.html
that should help in booting the .iso image through isolinux (NOT memdisk, thus memory should not be a problem), but I never tried this method, and I am not even sure it will work for something different from Recovery Console.
jaclaz Sep 24 2006
You may load emulation mode ISO images, e.g. drive fitness test (DFT) http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm That's a 1.44 mb floppy image and addtional files.
Contrary, loading no emulation ISO images may fail. E.g. Knoppix dosn't find Knoppix image.
cdob Sep 25 2006
You can boot an iso image in BCDW only if the iso image contains only the boot image & nothing else. When you burn the iso by itself & you see some files outside of the bootimage it will not work. I have even booted iso images of 32 mb for example acronis all in one boot image.
pmshah Oct 4 2006