Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.debian.user > #270211

Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025?

From Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025?
Date 2024-06-18 15:10 +0200
Message-ID <IQGKZ-3Ory-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <IQugN-3GCQ-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <IQvwe-3Hwi-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <IQwBX-3Idq-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw


On 6/18/24 04:10, jeremy ardley wrote:
> 
> On 18/6/24 09:00, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Is there a chance to change in next versions i.e. Debain 13 or other
>>> versions an assembly specifically for a USB flash drive as primary
>>> download?  Do you think the time has come? When do you think this moment
>>> will happen?
>> AFAIK, all the so-called CD/DVD images work just fine when "burned" on
>> a USB flash drive.  So I think the question is whether it's time to
>> change the doc to stop suggesting that those images should be burned
>> onto optical media.
>>
>>
>>          Stefan
>>
> 
> The ISO images will be around for a long time. They are the primary 
> mechanism of creating virtual machines by attaching virtual drives to a 
> .iso file and booting.

And some of the BIOSes of old PCs are not able to boot from USB...

   Detlef

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Vitold S <vit1251@gmail.com> - 2024-06-18 01:50 +0200
  Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? eben@gmx.us - 2024-06-18 02:40 +0200
  Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-06-18 02:40 +0200
  Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-06-18 03:10 +0200
    Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-06-18 04:20 +0200
      Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch> - 2024-06-18 15:10 +0200
        Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-06-18 15:30 +0200
          Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2024-06-18 19:30 +0200
            Documentation improvement (optical and USB install media) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-06-18 23:10 +0200
    Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Thomas Dineen <tdineen2021@gmail.com> - 2024-06-18 04:50 +0200
      Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-06-18 08:00 +0200
      Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2024-06-18 18:00 +0200
        Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-06-18 19:10 +0200
          Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2024-06-18 19:40 +0200
    Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Jean-François Bachelet <jfbachelet@free.fr> - 2024-06-18 10:50 +0200
      Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-06-18 15:30 +0200
  Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-06-18 08:40 +0200
    Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2024-06-18 09:10 +0200
  Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-06-18 12:00 +0200
    Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-06-18 12:10 +0200
      Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-06-18 15:20 +0200

csiph-web