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Hello

The autorun feature of the ISO has been around since Mandrake / Mandriva, along with dosutils and rawwritewin. Mounting the ISO in Windows and then choose to install used to result in a reboot and then the Linux install would commence. This is not the case anymore, at least not when i've tried it out. Is there a reason why these are still present on the ISO image?

I wanted to install from an ISO image without making a bootable USB.

/Michael

Well, if you reboot, the iso is obviously not present anymore if you only mounted it from within windows, so how should the installation start?

And there are only two bugs open related to the windows autorun stuff, but only cosmetic things:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16440
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17094

The autorun used to place a boot record to start the linux installer after reboot. After that you could choose the install media. Either from CDROM or ISO image. This doesn't happen anymore. After autorun and a reboot Windows just loads as usual.

Willard1975 wrote:The autorun used to place a boot record to start the linux installer after reboot.

I certainly remember this happening from cd-rom.
auto.exe would set the cd-rom as the default boot device, not sure about a .iso on the HDD

With the advent of secure boot, it may be time to revisit it.
I understand that a QA member will be looking into it in the next few days.

regards

Hello Willard1975

has been confirmed by a tester, as per your method description.

Willard1975 wrote:I wanted to install from an ISO image without making a bootable USB.

Is there a particular reason you dont wish to make a bootable USB key?