[syslinux] Advice/directions to users of Syslinux

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jan 24 11:50:37 PST 2014


On 01/22/2014 03:46 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 
> Apparently, yes.  And it seems to me that the simplest way (from the
> point of view of the end user) to insure that these things are done
> correctly is for the distributors of tools such as Clonezilla,
> Ultimate Boot CD, and OpenELEC to follow in the footsteps of, e.g.
> the Archlinux folks and the Debian folks and the LessLinux folks
> i.e. by just simply distributing images that can be (no-brainer)
> block-by-block copied onto USB sticks in order to produce a working
> stick... using either dd or whatever the bleep its counterpart on
> Windows/DOS might be.
> 

There is a reason for isohybrid, even though there are unfortunately
systems on which it doesn't work.  For the vast majority of people,
though, it really simplified things.

	-hpa



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