Hi!

Thanks for the announcements... I have some questions :-)

If legacy avoids syslinux / memdisk, which computers can
boot from CD but can not use syslinux / memdisk? And which
computers can use syslinux / memdisk but can not boot from
el torito (did you mean boot floppy image?) bootable CD?

Would it be useful to ship the ISOs with VMDK files, too?

Can the boot floppy either mount the ISO from a file or use
actual CD/DVD/... drives and if yes, which requirements have
to be met for which of the two options?

Do the lite and full USB versions also have the "live" (no
install needed) functionality? Would a lite CD be useful or
is everybody happy with lite USB? Which boot style do the
USB downloads use, direct USB drive boot or rather again
something with memdisk and a Linux style loader for that?

Regarding the size requirements, which filesystem type and
cluster sizes do those assume? I know it could be a bit
tricky to extrapolate those, but it would still be good
to know at least the FAT16 "bad" case (32k clusters) and
the FAT32 default case (4k clusters, drives 1/2 to 8 GB).
As FAT12 is only used for drives up to 16 MB (max cluster
size 4k) there is no need to consider that at the moment.
Thanks to everybody who helped with 1.3rc2 indeed :-)

Eric

PS: Interesting that MS has given some exFAT patents to OIN
and re-licensed the exFAT specs after 10+ years this year!
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/exfat-specification




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