![]() So it depends on the distro.Ī USB drive is a hard drive as far as the system's concerned. But the ISO file probably expects to be run off of a CDROM, and will complain mightily about not being able to find its contents - unless the distro has special arrangements to allow you to tell it where to find itself. You could install your own bootloader, and build a custom initrd containing minimal software allowing it to mount an ISO image off of the USB drive, and chroot into that.You need different bootloaders to boot from a USB drive rather than a CDROM drive anyway.This means dumping an ISO image onto a USB drive won't work. ![]() ![]() You can't fool the BIOS into believing it is. A USB flash drive isn't a CDROM, period, no ifs, ands, or buts.Sometimes you'll find special tools like the program which makes Win7 ISO's into bootable flash drives, but that only works for specific versions of specific programs it needs to be able to understand them, and reconfigure them for the different boot device.They're too different to be directly compatible with each other. There's no magic "make bootable CD into bootable USB drive" program.
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