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Re: isorecorder



On Sun, 2021-01-10 at 20:19 +0000, Pete Batard wrote:
> 
> The goal of Rufus is to create a bootable USB with content that is as 
> close as possible to the ISO content *AND* is bootable as USB media, period.
> 
> As such, when booting in UEFI mode, the *only* element that Rufus may 
> modify are the labels used in the GRUB/Syslinux config files (kernel 
> option) for source media lookup, to accommodate FAT32 limitations on 
> that matter (since FAT limits labels to 11 uppercase characters, and ISO 
> volumes can and usually do use labels with much longer names).
> 
> Apart from this, everything else is a binary identical copy of the ISO 
> content, which you can easily validate if needed.
> 
> Then, for BIOS mode, we of course need to install GRUB or Syslinux 
> bootloaders, which can't come from the ISO but which we produce from 
> vanilla official releases, 
[...]
Let me emphasize that the unmodified debian installer images, when copied to a
USB stick via (unix) dd  or cp, boot just fine in both UEFI mode and BIOS mode.
They also work just fine when copied unmodified to a CD or DVD.


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