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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: fireofsoul on December 14, 2004, 04:20:21 am

Title: Help with iso's
Post by: fireofsoul on December 14, 2004, 04:20:21 am: I have an iso file of an OS which is around 750mb, too large to fit onto a normal cd-r.
I was wondering if there was a way i could boot that iso file from my hdd to install it?(as in restart the computer and BAM there is is)

Thanks
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Post by: RussianVodka on December 14, 2004, 04:21:40 am: Try super-compresing it.

I dont know how its done... But http://www.ag.ru likes to do it with their files.

Problem: It takes about 20mins to decompres.

Its like a super version of a .rar thing.
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Post by: Ghostslayer on December 14, 2004, 04:35:22 am: You can use Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/download.php) it allows you to make a virtual CD/DVD drive and open any CD image file that way.
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Post by: Shadowfalcon on December 14, 2004, 05:51:59 am: Use Daemon Tools so that you may open up whats inside, copy everything in the CD to a new hard drive, boot using the new HD. That may or may not work, would help to know what OS it is.
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Post by: swift on December 14, 2004, 08:22:59 am: Where did you get the iso from?

Surely an image of a cd will burn back onto the cd ?

Have you tried burning the image to a cd even though it seems too large ? It might just be track information etc. taken from the original that doesn\'t actually add to the real cd image size. It might also be intended for burning to a dvd. It would help if you told us what OS it was.
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Post by: fireofsoul on December 14, 2004, 09:09:34 am: yeah doesnt fit swift, thanks ghost, your one worked i had tryed virtual cd but had no success. The OS had the option to copy all files to hdd.

FIXED :)
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Post by: Annah on December 14, 2004, 12:35:14 pm: Hmm, well, you could\'ve bought a 800 mb cd :P
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Post by: JellyWerker on December 14, 2004, 04:21:45 pm: I agree with annah, go buy an 800mb cd, and, are you pirating games? don\'t, bad habit. No linux cd or such would be over 700mb.
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Post by: Androgos on December 14, 2004, 04:31:07 pm: Normal 700MB CDs can handle up to something like 760MB AFAIK, but normal burners don\'t support what is called overburning, i.e burning outside the normal limits.

I have a Plextor burner which long was the best one you could get (and still is VERY good), I have no problems getting 750MB down into a 700MB disc.
And remember, 750 is including TOC and other stuff, which normal file burning doesn\'t include
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Post by: Thenior on December 14, 2004, 04:33:16 pm: well what game is over 800MB for one disc? :P

Unless you have to run the program off a CD, you could use something like ISObuster and extract it to any location, and install it from there...

Why not buy a DVD burner?
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Post by: fireofsoul on December 14, 2004, 10:27:52 pm: it wasnt a game (read the top), it was linux and i didnt want to buy a 800mb disk. But its all working now...