Comments on: Netbook Bios Idea for ISO Files

By: Rothgar

Rothgar — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:04:27 +0000

If you have a large enough USB drive (~4GB) you can always install Vista and Windows 7 using that. And for Linux you can use unetbootin to do the same thing.

By: Antonio Bakula

Antonio Bakula — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:55:01 +0000

I think that this is a great idea, I am about to finally kick dusty old XP and install windows 7, as MSDN subscriber I can download ISO of instalation disk. And I must burn it to CD and then install. And I got a same idea as you do, and do some googling to see is there such BIOS that can mount ISO images, sadly your blog post was only thing I found.

I will wrote a quick e-mail to some BIOS manufacturers.

By: Matt Williamson

Matt Williamson — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:24:29 +0000

Excellent idea. It would sure beat purchasing an external optical drive for 1 time use, or tearing out an internal drive to use with an adapter like this:

http://www.bunkerhollow.com/blogs/matt/archive/2009/02/28/asus-eee-pc-1000he-review.aspx