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Quick question about iso's

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Hello,
 

Really quick and probably stupid question.  I'm going to be running a few vm's.  One with Windows 10, another with Windows 11 and a few running different forms of Linux.  It's been a while since I got iso files.  My question is, can I just download the iso files into one of my drives and install the operating systems that way or do I need to put the iso's one at a time onto a flash drive?

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Hello,
 

Really quick and probably stupid question.  I'm going to be running a few vm's.  One with Windows 10, another with Windows 11 and a few running different forms of Linux.  It's been a while since I got iso files.  My question is, can I just download the iso files into one of my drives and install the operating systems that way or do I need to put the iso's one at a time onto a flash drive?

You'll need to write the ISO to the flash drive. An ISO is just a disk image - putting the file on a flash drive will do nothing.

If you're using Windows, use Windows Media Creation Tool. If you're using macOS, you'll want to use macOS. If you're doing Linux that comes in an ISO, use Rufus.

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If you're installing these operating systems in virtual machines then you don't need a flash drive at all. 

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If youre gonna be using Vm's simply donwload the iso files of the desired distros/windows 10/11 and simply yeah just put them somewhere on your drive and after doing so put them as your primary boot image in the program that youre using to create those vms tmeselves f.e vitual box or Idk whateveryoure using hopeuflly this helps

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9 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

You'll need to write the ISO to the flash drive. An ISO is just a disk image - putting the file on a flash drive will do nothing.

If you're using Windows, use Windows Media Creation Tool. If you're using macOS, you'll want to use macOS. If you're doing Linux that comes in an ISO, use Rufus.

not with a vm

A vm will allow you do mount a ISO as a boot image and then install it onto the virtualdrive

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