Vista RC2: is .iso bootable or not?

[Jack]

Hello,
I am trying to install Vista RC2 inside VirtualPC but it will not
start.
I am using file:
vista_5744.16384.061003-1945_x86fre_client-lrmcfre_en_dvd.iso
I have downloaded it from MS website last fall.
Is that iso bootable or not?
Jack

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

RC2 ceased to be legal the day the retail version was released.

 

[Peter Foldes]

That is because you will need to convert the ISO to a bootable disk with something like Nero

 

[Jack]

Does it mean I am the condemned person? Damn!
I thought I can use RC2 until the end of May (or is it June) until licence
will expire!
Isn't so?
Jack

 

[John Barnes]

If you burn it as an .iso, it is.
There was nothing in my RC1 release that would indicate anything but the
time limit of June 1, 2007

 

[Mike Matheny]

How are you trying to boot from the ISO? Once you create the virtual
machine, press Start, and on the top menu, click on CD\Capture ISO image.
(Once you set this, you MIGHT have to reboot it.)

 

[Jack]

I have tried that many times. It does not work!
Jack

 

[Rock]

Hello,
I am trying to install Vista RC2 inside VirtualPC but it will not
start.
I am using file:
vista_5744.16384.061003-1945_x86fre_client-lrmcfre_en_dvd.iso
I have downloaded it from MS website last fall.
Is that iso bootable or not?

An *.iso file is not bootable. It's an image of the disk. You use a
burning program to burn it as an image to DVD to create a bootable DVD.

 

[Lang Murphy]

An *.iso file is not bootable. It's an image of the disk. You use a
burning program to burn it as an image to DVD to create a bootable DVD.

Uh, not true? If the ISO is of a bootable CD, then yes, you can mount it in
a VMWare session and boot from it. I just did it last week with the Ubuntu
iso.

Lang

 

[Rock]

Uh, not true? If the ISO is of a bootable CD, then yes, you can mount it
in a VMWare session and boot from it. I just did it last week with the
Ubuntu iso.

Ok, I didn't think that was the case. Does it depend on how the *.iso was
created since the OP said he couldn't do it with the RC2 .iso? Thanks for
the correction.

 

[Mike Matheny]

Then maybe you have a bad ISO - have you tried burning it to a DVD and tried
booting off of it?

 

[Jack]

iso is fine.
Using Daemon Tools I was able to install Vista on my portable harddrive.
The problem I have is strictly connected to Virtual PC.
Jack

 

[Lang Murphy]

Ok, I didn't think that was the case. Does it depend on how the *.iso was
created since the OP said he couldn't do it with the RC2 .iso? Thanks for
the correction.

Rock,

To tell you the truth, I'm not an expert on this. All I now is that if the
ISO is bootable, you can use it to boot into either VMWare or VPC VM's. When
I build my own WinPE iso's, I use the oscdimg utility and that has a switch
that can make the ISO bootable. Then, when one creates CD's from the ISO
file, those CD's are bootable. I can't think of any other use for bootable
ISO's other than with VM's.

Thanks,

Lang

 

[Rock]

Rock,

To tell you the truth, I'm not an expert on this. All I now is that if the
ISO is bootable, you can use it to boot into either VMWare or VPC VM's.
When I build my own WinPE iso's, I use the oscdimg utility and that has a
switch that can make the ISO bootable. Then, when one creates CD's from
the ISO file, those CD's are bootable. I can't think of any other use for
bootable ISO's other than with VM's.

Thanks for the additional info, Lang.

 

[Lang Murphy]

Thanks for the additional info, Lang.

My pleasure..

Lang

 

[Mike Matheny]

It happens that Jack formulated :

iso is fine.
Using Daemon Tools I was able to install Vista on my portable harddrive.
The problem I have is strictly connected to Virtual PC.
Jack

What version of Virtual PC are you running - earlier version could not mount a
DVD size ISO - get the latest version and I bet it will work.