> From: Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> >> I would appreciate some help with formatting a USB memory stick on Linux >> such that it appears as a CD drive. >> >> Please note that this is an ordinary USB memory stick - not a U3 device. >> The formatting should allow the USB stick to appear as a CD drive on >> Windows as well.
> > Could you be more specific? What you are asking lies in my area of > knowledge and experience though I dunno about Linux. > > But the ideas are the same. > > The boot record in the USB/hard disk are fundamentally different from > that found on CD/DVD. Moreover only ISO can be burnt on CD. > > What do you really want? > > Why don't you dump an ISO image to a USB stick? But it would not boot... It is possible to write an ISO image to a USB disk. I have done that before and it does boot. However, what I am trying to do is to format a USB disk such that it appears as a CD drive on Windows and Linux. For instance, if you use a Tata Indicom wireless lan USB stick, it will show up as a CD drive on windows as well as Linux. This allows windows to run the "autorun.inf" files on the USB. Thank you, Prem _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
