[ale] fake usb drive

[Jim Kinney]

That's the process I was envisioning (not the escaping smoke part!).
Of course my laptop drive is just not going to work like that...

Thanks, Brian. Looks like I'll be burning DVD's now. :-(

Hopefully I have to burn only a couple to hammer down the rest of the details.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Brian Pitts<brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>> I want to test an installation process on specific hardware. I would
>> like to do this without burning a g'zillion DVD's.
>>
>> Ideally, I would like to have the DVD.iso on my laptop be seen by the
>> real hardware as a USB DVD drive. My gut instinct is that buring DVD's
>> will be faster than trying to create a fake chunk of hardware. But my
>> laptop has no DVD burner so I must use one from elsewhere
>> (non-portable) and come back to the real machine with a warm disk.
>>
>> Any ideas how to send "Hi! I'm a DVD drive" fake data down the USB
>> cable when probed by BIOS? Then how to go about having the iso be "in
>> the drive".
>>
>
> Is this going to be safe?
>
> Your laptop obviously runs the USB port as host
>
> If you can hook a USB drive up to the specific hardware, it must run the
> port as host as well.
>
> This means electricity is being sent by both ends. I'm not an expert on
> these things, but that sounds like a situation where the magic smoke
> escapes.
>
> If your laptop hardware has support for switching USB to device mode,
> and if it's in the list of supported hardware here [0], then you can use
>  the the File-backed Storage Gadget [1] to export a file fronm your
> laptop as if it was a usb mass storage device.
>
> [0] http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget/
> [1] http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget/file_storage.html
>
> --
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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