[Sheflug] CD booting from virtual drives/partitions

[Diana Maynard <d.maynard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks
This is actually a question from a friend of mine. Can anyone help please?
Thanks
Diana

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I've bought a new netbook which, as is usual, does not have a built-in 
CD/DVD drive. I load up software using an external USB drive. However, 
I'm using a Linux boot CD for a function that I'd really like the 
portability of the netbook to work with, i.e. without a USB drive 
dangling from it (which also need mains power.)

So can I create a virtual drive/partition on the netbook hard disk, and 
copy (an ISO image?) from the CD to it? How do I then boot from this 
partition? I think Games X-copy might be the tool for the job, but I've 
only used this to install games thus far. Is there a better tool to do 
what I want to do? Any helpful instructions to get me going?

Thanks in advance.
DP

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