My most McGyvered solution to create a bootable USB was to take a really old Android phone and make it into one. Worked surprisingly well, actually.
Oh damn, would not have expected that to work. The worst hack I ever used is when I helped a friend install Linux who didn't have any spare (working) USB drives around. He did have a spare SSD in his PC however, so I ended up flashing the ISO to that.
Back in the day: Installing MS Office with all the bells and whistles. I think it was 26 disks.
Insert disk 12....
My first Linux experience was Redhat with floppies as well.
What fun.
sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of you with my apple juice "How did you get urgent security and application updates Grandpa?"
From a security perspective its hard to go wrong with physical disks
What's ventoy?
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly. You can copy many files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them.
Its like grub but for your iso's. You install ventoy, drag your iso's into the ventoy folder and bam you got a grub like selection of all your iso's
If you have a dvd drive in your PC, you are officially old. I have one, blu ray even. Haven't used it in years. It's not even wired up atm.
I have an optical drive in 3 of my machines. I'm not old
Not old, either. My old desktop that I gave to my younger brother has an optical drive. Whenever I have spare money laying around to build and a place to put a desktop, it's going to have an optical drive. Not having one, at least somewhat reachable makes me anxious. I use it probably less than once a quarter, more like twice yearly, but when I need it, I need it.
Honestly, a better solution would be an open-source IODD-type device, because sometimes I still meet old devices which do boot via USB DVD drives, but not flash drives.
But Ventoy is a second solid choice, especially with newer devices, where such limitations are basically non-existent :)
My micro SD Card in the USB Adapter needs 2 vor 3 tries
You shouldn't eat micro SD cards, no matter how much it turns you on.
Better than eating a full sized SD card, at least.
Yummy
If you don't have a floppy disk to boot into the optimal memory configuration for your game, what are you even doing with your life?
Me in the corner with netboot.xyz: "I am four parallel universes ahead of you"
