Boot from local disk image ?

Hi there,
I would like to now if it's possible to install snow leopard on my macbook air from a local disk image (.iso)
as anyone done it ?
Cheers,
Antoine

You cannot start up your computer from a disk image without cloning, burning, or restoring the image to an internal drive, external FireWire drive, or optical disks first, as disk images are not usable until the necessary drivers are loaded, and the drivers aren't loaded until Mac OS X has started up.
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