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On 2016-05-06, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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>> I'd like to to install winusb, and it appears to depend on grub-2: |
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>> $ sudo emerge -av winusb |
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> Ok, so I've never used winusb, so excuse me for asking a few dumb |
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> questions here. Even after reading a bit and searching around, I |
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> have these dumb questions. I did not find sufficient reading |
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> materials to 'turn the light on' as to when and why and how this |
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> winusb is used. |
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> 1. So winusb can put a window (vista-->8) image on a usbstick that will |
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> boot most x86 orx86-64 hardware with the appropriate windows binary? |
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> The hardware can then be installed with the windows image? |
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That's my understanding. [I haven't actually done it yet.] |
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Many of the machines I use no longer have (working) optical |
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drives. When doing OS installs I almost always use USB flash drives. |
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I've been doing Linux installs that way for yonks. Most Linux OS |
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distro .iso images are already "hybrid" so they boot as-is from a |
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block storage device. In my experience, those that aren't can be |
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fixed up with a simple "isohybrid" command. |
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Now I want to stop buring Windows DVDs. |
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> 2. winusb can be used as a live_windows on a linux system where |
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> changes are retain on the usb stick? |
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No, I don't think so. |
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> 3. winusb can be used to install windows in a VM? |
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Presumably -- if you can boot the VM from a USB storage device. |
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> 4. winusb can be used to install windows in a container? |
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I don't know enough about containers to posit an answer. |
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Grant |
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