It can't be done without specialized hardware. You can't just connect the USB ports of two computers together.
Matt On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:10:42PM -0700, Yang Yang wrote: > hi folks: > I bought a thin laptop, so I need an external CDROM to boot it > or reinstall system in the future. I thought since every Desktop has > USB interface and CDROM, it should be possible in theory to run some > sort of server on it, and behave just like a hardware external USB > drive, and we could connect the desktop and laptop with a USB > crossover cable. > > I know external CDROM drives are not expensive, but the above idea > sounds very cool. although it's possible to boot and install from > network for Linux, for windows we can't boot from network, so an > emulated USB drive would be more handy. > > has anybody heard of some implementations doing this? thanks > > > thanks > > > Yang > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users -- Matthew Dharm Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver E: You run this ship with Windows?! YOU IDIOT! L: Give me a break, it came bundled with the computer! -- ESR and Lan Solaris User Friendly, 12/8/1998
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