On 27/02/2012 16:53, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:35:22 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>
>> I wonder... would copying the CD image to a USB drive actually work?
>
> Yep.  Use isohybrid to get it working.
>
> I do this quite regularly with openSUSE ISO images in order to boot from
> a USB flash drive instead.  Installs are *much* quicker.

The seek time on a CD drive /is/ rather poor. I find that when I install 
stuff onto a VM, using an ISO image on a networked file server, it runs 
/way/ faster than if I really did put the physical CD into the local 
machine's drive and run it without any VM overhead.

So, uh, anyway... Can I literally just do a block-level copy from the 
ISO image to the flash drive? Or do I have to /do/ stuff to it first to 
make it work?

Also, is there a quick way to test whether a particular PC even 
/supports/ booting from flash? Like I say, I've never seen it actually 
work IRL. Is there some easily available image I can test with?

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