I'm looking for a way to boot an old 32 bit system from a usb device, which should be recognised as an (external) CDRom drive (boot from USB is not supported).
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I'm looking for a way to boot an old 32 bit system from a usb device, which should be recognised as an (external) CDRom drive (boot from USB is not supported). I feel that this should be possible to emulate fully from software, without needing an actual physical usb CDRom drive and old Debian 12 installer.
Tips/reshares are appreciated!
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I'm looking for a way to boot an old 32 bit system from a usb device, which should be recognised as an (external) CDRom drive (boot from USB is not supported). I feel that this should be possible to emulate fully from software, without needing an actual physical usb CDRom drive and old Debian 12 installer.
Tips/reshares are appreciated!
@dynom Yes, there is a hardware device that plugs into your USB and pretends to be a CDROM, and you can add .ISOs to it to boot off:
Of course it depends on your computer BIOS supporting boot from USB - not all of them support it.
I have a couple of old ones (one USB 2 and later one USB 3), and it worked great on most things, but an old HP ProLiant wouldn't boot off it.
There are quite a few shinier ones available now by the looks of their site.
Also, there's Ventoy (https://www.ventoy.net), but i've never tried it.
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