May 09, 2008 Archives

Fri May 9 05:29:13 UTC 2008

Mounting ISO files in Windows

I've downloaded my Ubuntu ISO files … and now I'm sitting on a Windows XP machine I'd like to try the wubi installer to be found on the Desktop CD.

But it's not exactly easy mounting an ISO file under Windows …

Luckily I ran across a blog post from Michael Bowman that discusses a few options :- http://proxy.11a.nu/2005⁄05/08/mounting-iso-image-files-under-windows

There's an ugly-as-but-functioning put of code available from Microsoft, the Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP that needs some manual installation. I think I'd rather install crap code from Microsoft than some random third-party all-singing-all-dancing thing to use only one small feature once …


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