[Leaplist] DVD/CD Emulator

[Tom Parker]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:

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> If you are talking about simply mounting a CD/DVD image you can simply
> mount the file with -o loop.
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Nope, it needs to be a device that emulates a USB CD-ROM from an ISO file,
not the other way around.


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> Of course you are probably talking about something more complex like a
> boot disc for an OS install or utility.  That can be done with something
> like unetbootin which is most commonly used to put downloadable iso images
> onto a bootable USB stick for OS installs on netbooks that don't have
> optical drives.
>

Unetbootin only works with specific Linux distros.  I need something that
will work with any ISO.


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> If you don't need to take the bootable media away from your LAN you can
> also setup a network boot server and boot the image right off of a file
> server with a nice menu for which one you want.
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I'm sometimes on networks where I cannot setup a boot server.  I can't rely
on having a network available.

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