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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostBecause apparently the only way to boot is to embed a small Fat32 partition with UEFI stuff in it. This is a much shorter tutorial https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...ot-efiboot-img
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Originally posted by zxy_thf View PostBooting from USB is very tricky before UEFI. Some BIOS treats usb drive as hard drive, some treat its as floopy (iirc).
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Originally posted by anarki2 View PostThat doesn't really require non-UEFI. Debian Installer will also confuse some of your pendrives with hard disks no probs. Love to figure such sh*t out.
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I can honestly say that I've never installed Linux from a thumb drive. I've only ever done it from CD/DVD. Maybe I'm just old school, it's the way I've always done it, since the later 1990's when distros switched from a stack of floppy disks to a CDROM image. And at work, our remote management consoles and hypervisor interfaces make mounting a virtual media ISO image a piece of cake. I'm not even sure if the infrastructure is capable of mounting virtual USB devices and booting from them, never saw a need to try that.
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Originally posted by stiiixy View PostSome people above seem to not entirely comprehend they're NOT removing optical support, just reducing any show stopping bugs to irrelevant caused by this corner case in order to ship the whole project.
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My issue is that a lot of people grab the ISO from a mirror site rather than the main download page. That makes it difficult to put up a warning that says "here is the ISO don't use it for DVD installs at this time". I would hate to see some one wipe their existing system and start a DVD install just to end up with a hosed system.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostFun fact: installing from thumb drive still requires an ISO for most distros.
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