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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat How to create a bootable ISO from running Linux box? Post 302692285 by Corona688 on Monday 27th of August 2012 11:09:02 AM
Old 08-27-2012
They're really not the same. Hard disks have partitions, ISO's do not. Hard disks are writable, ISO's are not.

It's possible certainly but there's not a direct translation -- you can't just boot an iso and get all your partitions, you have to have a special bootloader which arranges them for you, and then boots your system somehow in a manner it won't try to mount them again -- and it'd mean putting a ton of stuff into ram or unionfs so you don't get read-only-filesystem errors everywhere.

Besides, will your system even fit on ISO?

Last edited by Corona688; 08-27-2012 at 12:19 PM..
 

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NAME
Encode::Byte - Single Byte Encodings SYNOPSIS
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