You don't have to burn an (arbitrary) ISO image onto optical media before booting it. Yes, ISOLINUX-based ISO images can be converted to USB easily enough, but it's not generally possible to do so with arbitrary El Torito images.
I don't always have a burner, blank media, a USB CD-ROM drive, and enough (or high-power-enough) USB ports to plug said drive in. This lets me boot any ISO image with nothing more than any standard USB1.1+ port, assuming the computer can boot off a USB CD-ROM drive in the first place.
When re-provisioning an older Dell server recently, for example, this would have saved me almost an entire day's worth of time.
-Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net (204) 291-7950 - direct (204) 489-6515 - fax
-----Original Message----- From: roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable- bounces@muug.mb.ca] On Behalf Of John Lange Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 12:23 To: athompso@athompso.net; Continuation of Round Table discussion Subject: Re: [RndTbl] isostick - the optical drive in a usb stick
I'm kind of confused; if the system can't boot from USB, how does this make any difference?
Or maybe I'm just not understanding what problem this is solving...
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