[ale] fake usb drive

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

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".

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James P. Kinney III
Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness