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Good-bye CD/DVD

Posted May 28, 2012 13:20 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Good-bye CD/DVD by wookey
Parent article: Moving on

But the new CD/USB images are great! All CD images are isohybrid: they work for a CD and for a USB key, so the only thing that needs doing is a dd command. I contend in jest that mere mortals who cannot issue that command are not worthy of Debian.

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Good-bye CD/DVD

Posted May 28, 2012 17:16 UTC (Mon) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]

There are indeed very nifty. I used one last week.

However they are x86 only, so far as I know, which is a limitation. I don't know if that can be fixed (as I don't know how it works).