Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optical drive

Re:Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optica... by jfdi on Thursday July 28, 2011 @01:15PM (#2817824)

Guys, why is this newsworthy... I recently made a bootable ubuntu usb stick after a couple google searches and commodity $15 8GB stick from BBY sale bin.

Maybe I'm missing something important here, but the technology to burn an ISO to a USB is freely available why would anyone spend extra money for this rig.

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Re:Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optica... by mikezupan on Thursday July 28, 2011 @01:43PM (#2817968)

try burning multiple isos to a single usb stick.. next time read the article

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Re:Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optica... by devmach on Thursday July 28, 2011 @03:00PM (#2818376)

So you need 150 different operation systems on your usb and computer ? I'm just fine with creating usb stick with most recent version of os when i need. And i think most people feels the same way...

If i can solve my problem with software and ordinary (=cheap) hardware, why should i pay 10 times more ?

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Re:Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optica... by dfc on Thursday July 28, 2011 @01:59PM (#2818056)

YUMI does this apperently. I had never heard of Yumi before, but I read the comments (and the article) so now I know about it.

So given our new knowledge what does this do that yumi does not?

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Re:Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optica... by e1ven on Thursday July 28, 2011 @02:36PM (#2818268)

Yumi uses GRUB directly for the boot, so I believe it's limited to Linux only (AFAIK, Grub can't direct boot an iso)

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Re:Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optica... by dfc on Thursday July 28, 2011 @02:48PM (#2818313)

Unless things have changed GRUB can boot other operating systems.

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Re:Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optica... by mbreese on Thursday July 28, 2011 @02:46PM (#2818308)

Grub can boot just about anything... Windows included.

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