On Thu, 24 Mar 2022, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
If it's going to only be usable on a USB stick, then let's fix how we build
it and avoid all the indirection that exists ONLY so that it can be used on
optical media.
As 32bit systems are no longer supported anyway, I am not sure there are
any 64bit systems that can not load from a USB stick. The only reason I
have a DVD player/writer is because I have a PCIe PATA card and the DVD is
used for playing media just because of the pain in find blank DVD/CDs and
formating data to put it on there in the first place is also a pain. The
new full size case my son bought doesn't even have a cd/dvd bay.
So anyway, A bootable USB install media format limited only by the USB
stick size makes sense to me too. The only problem I see with that (I
really don't know if it would even be a problem) is, would current
windows/mac based USB stick writing tools still be able to create a
bootable USB stick? I am assuming dd would still be able to write the
whole image to the stick. I more advanced utility could format the whole
stick, making it persistant too, though making it persistant after the
fact might be a better route. (I personally have no need for this but the
question does pop up from time to time)
Len
PS this is being written from a 32 bit machine that is no longer Ubuntu
but mainline debian...
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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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