[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Bootable ISO

[Drew King]

Thanks Rich,

Knowing that there is often more than one way to skin a cat I decided to 
abandon booting from ISO file and pursue learning how to make the 
virtual machine boot from a USB drive. Moving forward booting from ISO 
is becoming obsolete in favor of booting from USB. Software programs 
like VMware and VirtualBox just need to catch up.

What I did inside VMware was create a virtual SCSI controller and link 
the physical USB drive to SCSI disk 0 and the new virtual disk drive 
where the operating system was going to be installed to SCSI disk 1.

When the VM powers on, it automatically looks to SCSI drive 0 for 
booting which in this case launched the installation of the modifier 
installer of windows 11!!

After Windows was installed I removed the USB on SCSI 0 which shifted 
the Windows drive to SCSI 0.

Windows 11 has no idea that it's installed on a machine with no trusted 
platform module support.

And, Windows update ran after installation was complete. Everything 
downloaded/installed!


Drew.

On 3/20/2022 8:17 AM, Rich Moffitt wrote:
> A very long time ago, I believe on Windows I used daemon tools for 
> this kind of thing. Later on, Poweriso. More recently, xorriso in 
> Linux to build a custom UEFI image or just dd to create a straight 
> image of USB media. It sounds to me like you were able to build a 
> bootable USB image that you just want to convert to ISO, so perhaps dd 
> would be sufficient here, so long as you don't need to make other 
> customizations.
>
> -Rich
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 12:27 AM Drew King <dking65 at kingconsulting.us> 
> wrote:
>
>     All,
>
>     I need to make a bootable ISO from a series of files and folders
>     that are over 5 gigabytes in size. Larger than your standard CD or
>     DVD. The regular programs that I use like imgburn and anyburn
>     claim to be able to make a bootable ISO file and I'm even using
>     the dos 622 IMG file to make the file disk bootable theoretically,
>     only it doesn't work!
>
>     What I did was run the Rufus program that I ran this past
>     Wednesday during a demo for you and now that I have a proper USB
>     flash drive I want to create an ISO file for the purpose of
>     creating a virtual machine inside the VM Ware player application.
>     VM Ware player does not support booting from a USB flash drive
>     although it does support booting from an ISO file. VM Ware player
>     new virtual machine successfully boots the original windows 11 ISO
>     file only it doesn't boot off of the modified ISO file.
>
>     Does anybody have a small utility that's free that can take a
>     bunch of files/folders and convert them into a bootable ISO?
>
>
>     Thanks.
>
>
>     -- 
>     Drew King
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