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Re:Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility by yarcob on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:22AM (#27073254)
Holy whackamoly! Booting directly from .iso files on a thumb drive? What kind of black magic is that?

This is the neatest thing I've seen on HN since the actually portable executable!

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Re:Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility by hansel_der on Friday May 07, 2021 @06:39AM (#27074426)
as stated elsewhere, the magic is that grub is able to directly boot a iso.
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Re:Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility by jtriangle on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:06PM (#27078864)
Not just iso files, it'll boot vhd's as well.
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Re:Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility by icelancer on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:59PM (#27079573)
This is the real insane feature for me. Wow.
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