In a message dated 2/29/2004 7:40:24 PM US Mountain Standard Time, vodhner@cox.net writes:
Is there any way to "burn" an ISO to a partition
on my hard disk, and then force a boot from that
partition to do my install?

I don't think you could use any bootable features on it.
 
You could mount it as a loopback sort of thing and then explore the filesystem.