[Gllug] Treats for Windows refugees

Tom Schutzer-Weissmann trmsw at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Sep 5 13:46:32 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 14:40 +0100, paul wrote:
> The best thing I discovered about Linux was how to build a CD server
> (In the Howto docs with Suse Distro's). This means you can turn any cd
> into an ISO file and have linux mount the ISO. then you can access
> this iso from any computer as though it were the origional cd. In fact I
> believe with the newer versions of Linux you can mount up to 64 ISO's.

Yes, that was what I mmeant by the loopback device - it's not just isos
you can do it with.

There is a Windows equivalent,
http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/xpvirtualcd.html

which works fine, I use it a lot at work.

TomSW


	
	
		
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