…from EasyOS, a Linux distro, which moved to the .img format.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I have a few CD-ROMs labeled “High Sierra” because the ISO 9660 format was always a loose approximation of what people were already doing. It got kludged even harder as CD-R and CD-RW took off. Turning that into something a USB drive can boot was a magic trick that lasted far longer than it probably should’ve.