Burn iso to hard drive partition install#

'How to boot ISO from hard disk?' Once Linux has connected a drive to the machine. Tl dr: installing the Mint ISO onto a partition without a DVD. Noob-instincts have served me well in the past, but even so, I'd like to ask on here if there's a more recommended method before I try. iso on the partition and attempting to boot from that drive, but I doubt it could possibly be that easy. My noob-instincts are telling me to try simply putting the. If I had a spare laptop for this, I'd use it, but this is the only computer I've got. I plan to dual-boot Windows 7 and Mint once it's installed obviously all my programs are windows-based but I'd like to learn to use Mint in preparation for it being my main day-to-day OS.

Burn iso to hard drive partition install#

Is there a way to install Mint directly onto this partition without burning the ISO to a disk? I remember 'mounting' ISOs in a virtual drive to run them as if they were burned to a disk, but something tells me that won't work here since the virtual drive would be running on Windows. I don't really want to buy a new one, since I never use disks nowadays and as a broke student it's a bit of a waste of ВЈ20. The issue is that I don't have a DVD drive, and the external one I was going to use is now broken. I searched this forum already but didn't find this question, so I apologise if it's asked a lot (or so dumb nobody's ever asked it, which is almost worse).ДЄnyway- I'm on a laptop with Windows already running, but I have a drive partition (200GB) ready to install Mint onto. Hi! Brand-new user here installing a Linux OS for the first time.