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There's a guy building a USB thumb-drive type device called the ISOStick (http://blog.elegantinvention.com/?cat=5 http://blog.elegantinvention.com/?cat=5) which
by shabble 15y ago
There's a guy building a USB thumb-drive type device called the ISOStick (http://blog.elegantinvention.com/?cat=5 http://blog.elegantinvention.com/?cat=5) which appears to be both a normal storage drive, but also emulates an optical drive containing a virtual disk specified by iso/file images on the usb-storage device.
http://blog.elegantinvention.com/?p=117 http://blog.elegantinvention.com/?p=117 has a few more details, but the plan is to have a whole bunch of isos stored on there, and a bootloader/config setup to allow you to choose which appears mounted as the virtual CD.
- rlpb 15y agoI use one of these, which is eseentially a hard drive version of what you describe: http://www.reghardware.com/2011/09/05/geek_treat_of_the_week_zalman_zm_ve200_external_hdd_case/ http://www.reghardware.com/2011/09/05/geek_treat_of_the_week... It works fine, though I've found the menu selection UI a bit dodgy, it requires NTFS (a FAT32 firmware is available but that can't do DVD-size ISOs), and there seems to be an unknown limit to the number of ISOs at which point it breaks and needs eSATA to recover (disk mode USB doesn't work either). But it's the only similar thing i know of that's available now, and it gets the job done.