Can I boot a Live CD by mounting an ISO

Question

I've just downloaded the Kali Linux (1.0.7) ISO and I was wondering if I can boot a Live CD by mounting an ISO to a virtual drive.

Can I boot it?

Solution 1

No you can't do that, you need to burn ISO either on USB/External hard disk/DVD/CD to mount while booting. Because if you do that by mounting, Once it is restarted your reference to mounted drive will not be there. Though, you can use ISO to install OS inside virtual machine.

I'll recommend you to use VirtualBox/VMWare Player to run live CD on virtual machine.

Solution 2

If you want to install an OS from an ISO without the use of a USB/CD then you could look into unetbootin's frugal install.

Download unetbootin, then run it and choose the hard drive you want to install on, reboot, then it should attempt to start the ISO.

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