[plug] Booting ISO image files

[Senectus -]

>Is there a way to boot an "image" direct from a file, loop-back style, 
>rather than a partition or CD? I have this dream of a magic boot-loader 
>which lists a pile of images (Debian Woody install, Debian Test install, 
>MoviX, Knoppix), and can boot any one on select. Now imagine that on a 
>bootable USB HDD? How hard would it to be to do this?
>
>The main technical "Gotcha" I can think of is that the images would 
>probably need to be unfragmented on the disk. Perhaps a special partition 
>format that is dedicated to sub-partitioned of other images?

I remember seeing a project once for installing iso's to "ram disks" for the 
purpose of OS's inside of OS's and testing stuff... etc but I can't find 
anything about it anymore...

Senectus

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