How do I run an ISO file?

[powwka]

Do I just need to burn it to a CD and then autoplay the CD?

 

[lozina]

you can try to extract the files from an ISO if you don't want to burn it. I think a tool called CDMage does a good job of that

or you can mount the ISO image using something like DAEMON tools, or Alcohol

 

[powwka]

But if I burn it, do I just have to burn it normally and then autoplay it? I have tried using some of those programs before but I'm too dumb

 

[corkyg]

Most good burnware has a choice in the menu to burn from an ISO file. Then it's a no brainer.

 

[secretanchitman]

nero has the option of "burn disc image". just locate the iso file and you are good to go!

or there are several programs out there that burn images to cds/dvds...alcohol, cloneCD, and etc are a couple!

 

[WildHorse]

But after the ISO is burned, how do you RUN it?

I burned a slipstream disk of Windows XP + SP2, but failed to make it bootable.

I can boot into DOS from my floppy drive, with SD-ROM drive support, but then in DOS how do you RUN the slipstream disk that's sitting in the H drive so as to install WIndows?

 

[corkyg]

You don't run the ISO, you run the CDR or DVD - what ever comes up as a program or playable file. The ISO file is only the coding needed to produce the CD or DVD. If the ISO file is for a bootable slipstreamed version of Windows + SP, then the resultant CD should also be bootable.

The key to that is creating the ISO file from a bootable disk.

When you slipstream SP2 into a Windows XP disk, you have to follow the exact procedures for slipstreaming. And . . . the original Windows XP disk has to be bootable. If it is not, that has to be a separate operation when burning the slipstreamed copy - has to have the BIN files, etc. The contents look like this:

Bootable

It is the bootcat.bin file that makes it bootable.

 

[Slick5150]

Originally posted by: scott
But after the ISO is burned, how do you RUN it?

I burned a slipstream disk of Windows XP + SP2, but failed to make it bootable.

I can boot into DOS from my floppy drive, with SD-ROM drive support, but then in DOS how do you RUN the slipstream disk that's sitting in the H drive so as to install WIndows?

Boot from the CD, not from the floppy

 

[TheRyuu]

Technically you don't "run" an iso. An iso is a image of a cd on your hard drive. You can either burn it to a cd, or mount it in an image program like Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools (Daemon Tools is free, lastest version is 4.x).

As corkyg has said, you need to have it be bootable, before it will boot on startup.

 

[Nothinman]

But after the ISO is burned, how do you RUN it?

I burned a slipstream disk of Windows XP + SP2, but failed to make it bootable.

I can boot into DOS from my floppy drive, with SD-ROM drive support, but then in DOS how do you RUN the slipstream disk that's sitting in the H drive so as to install WIndows?

That's a completely different issue. Making a bootable XP install disc is more work than making a normal disc because you need to add an El-Torito bootsector, there are tons of guides on the Internet on how to do that.

 

[powwka]

Thanks for the help everyone
I tried just sending the ISO to my CD burner and burning it, because I don't have any burning software. But after I burned it, it just showed the file on my CD, just like it was on my hard drive. So I downloaded DAEMON tools and mounted the file, and it worked perfectly. I thought it would be more complicated, but it wasn't.

 

[biff 24 2000]

isobuster

 

[WildHorse]

Originally posted by: corkyg
You don't run the ISO, you run the CDR or DVD - what ever comes up as a program or playable file. The ISO file is only the coding needed to produce the CD or DVD. If the ISO file is for a bootable slipstreamed version of Windows + SP, then the resultant CD should also be bootable.

The key to that is creating the ISO file from a bootable disk.

When you slipstream SP2 into a Windows XP disk, you have to follow the exact procedures for slipstreaming. And . . . the original Windows XP disk has to be bootable. If it is not, that has to be a separate operation when burning the slipstreamed copy - has to have the BIN files, etc. The contents look like this:

Bootable

It is the bootcat.bin file that makes it bootable.

My original Win XP disk comes new ALREADY bootable.

So I thought, mistakenly I guess, the resulting slipstreamed disk would then automatically be bootable too.

When burning the slipstreamed disk with Nero 6.6 I didn't add any special command to make the disk bootable.

Guess this slipstreamed disk is unuseable, so I need to make another one and select the "bootable CR-ROM" option when burning it.

Thank you everybody.

 

[Unkno]

i'm really surprised nobody mentioned winrar....