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|    Re: iso on usb    |
|    08 Sep 22 12:38:41    |
      From: jj4public@outlook.com              On Wed, 7 Sep 2022 16:57:15 -0700 (PDT), muta...@gmail.com wrote:       > Reactos is distributed as an iso which       > can be burnt to cd, which I understand.       >       > I have been told that the same iso can be       > burnt to USB stick and also work.       >       > How is it possible to boot from a USB stick       > that contains an iso image instead of       > a hard disk image?              The ISO is booted by using grub/grub2 boot manager which has the ability to       make a virtual floppy/CD and boot to it. So basically, the ISO is mounted       and to a virtual CD then the boot process is transferred to the CD's boot       code. Not all OS-in-ISO can be booted with this method though.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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