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Good question

TB — 5/3/2008 4:14:12 PM (archived)

Maybe, but setting it up would be a bitch, since most computers have to have the OS in place even to see the USB ports, never mind mapping a flash drive as a virtual disk.

I've never seen a bios that can be instructed to try to boot from a USB port, but who knows what's on the newest computers?

And of course, with all the authorization stuff involved in things like Microsoft operating systems, you have another layer of complexity.

Why would you want to do this?

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Can you load an OS on a flash drive? - RobVG - 5/3/2008 3:35:15 PM
- USB Live. - RobVG - 5/4/2008 3:17:10 AM
- re: Can you load an OS on a flash drive? - Cam "the man" - 5/4/2008 1:56:30 AM
  - Welcome 'The Zone' Cam. (n/t) - RobVG - 5/4/2008 3:18:55 AM
- Absolutely - RNE - 5/3/2008 4:45:51 PM
  - An OS within an OS- interesting thought. - RobVG - 5/3/2008 4:57:45 PM
    - There are several flavors of that in the mainframe world. - alcaray - 5/3/2008 8:28:11 PM
      - Ah hah! The master OS was called VM (virtual machine). Came to me in a flash. (n/t) - alcaray - 5/3/2008 8:35:33 PM
        
        (Nice Pun!) (n/t) - RobVG - 5/4/2008 3:19:27 AM
        
        Waiting for someone to hijack this thread and drive it on down. (n/t) - Tony - 5/5/2008 8:39:52 PM
        
        Don't look at me. Almost all of my puns are unintentional. (n/t) - alcaray - 5/6/2008 12:27:41 AM
- Apparently, yes - McFly - 5/3/2008 4:30:30 PM
  - Neat. - RobVG - 5/3/2008 4:53:57 PM
- Good question - TB - 5/3/2008 4:14:12 PM
  - Why?... WHY?...Because it would be kewl. (n/t) - RobVG - 5/3/2008 4:59:48 PM

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