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schip

..oops oops ISO ..not isolated. Grrr !!

schip

Maybe the really important factor isn't so much if its ISOLATED or IMG ?
But the use of Ventoy as a boot loader..as it will do both ISO or IMG..from wot I just read here in the Haiku-is discussions:

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/how-about-to-use-ventoy-for-installing-haiku/13281

..and it seems ...

schip

This thread started with increasing the size of IMG..and we're looking at other factors and sharing knowledge but there's another layer here than img vs iso comparisons.

I'm interested in giving longer life to wot industry considers or prefers to be 'obsolete' computers. And if a system can be ...

schip

Ta chaps !! ..this is excellent reading.

Im familiar with .IMG files from Mac PCs and do recall there being issues with a change of file type.
I found the file space size limitation with my first experiences with Haiku booted from USB stick...but on a more recent visit found they have a away around ...

schip

Im getting a page not found on this link,

want to learn more about IMG file creation - why linux distributions are using ISOs on machines without DVDs seems so backward.

schip

My next experiment will be to see if can install Librewolf ..Firefox based without all the stuff I dont need but with all the settings preset the way I like them.

schip

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success !!

..got the right info added..as I did yesterday (I think) but today it worked.

I wrongly thought maybe my emachine was 32 bit but on checking found it to be 64bit.
..actually I didn't expect it to work as the Flapi screen indicated an incomplete down load.

Anyway ...

schip

oops gotta keep this short as chromium keeps crashing.
theres mistakes in my post above.
and naturally links go to a 64 bit download.

usual story: operator error !!

gonna try a different browser but chromium wont let me download.

so gonna download on a different pc and install..and hopefully will ...

schip

Im using a low spec machine: eMachines eM350 N450 Atom, 2Gb..that I usually run Haiku-os on.
Chromium crashes..and would like to try Falkon which I sometimes use in Haiku.

The Falkon info I have for Flapi is:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo ...

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