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