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...elsewhere). This is already mentioned in the ISOLINUX page, but when a separate "isohybrid" page is created this information should be part of the new page (and not repeated). _ xorriso builds the ISO image, and it can (optionally and) simultaneously make it isohybrid too. This is an _alternative_ method. _ The different _alternatives_ should be clear to a common user, specially to avoid confusion with "serial-like" steps. _ Yet, the steps should be "generic", as opposed to getting into the details that are already part of tools' documentation and distros' w...

...hosted in sf.net). There are also "dd for Windows" variants, "image writers" and "multiboot GUI" tools. That's enough. > > > > _ xorriso builds the ISO image, and it can (optionally and) > > simultaneously make it isohybrid too. This is an _alternative_ > > method. > > Stated by "The result needs no further treatment by isohybrid tools." > > > > _ The different _alternatives_ should be clear to a common user, > > specially to avoid confusion with "serial-like" steps. > > I hoped to mak...

...Yeah. Putting an image onto USB stick is not easy to explain. (Best is to have read S.R. Bourne's "The Unix System".) On MS-Windows i would be totally helpless. > _ xorriso builds the ISO image, and it can (optionally and) > simultaneously make it isohybrid too. This is an _alternative_ > method. Stated by "The result needs no further treatment by isohybrid tools." > _ The different _alternatives_ should be clear to a common user, > specially to avoid confusion with "serial-like" steps. I hoped to make clear that the user should run one isohybri...

...s is indeed worth to be mentioned. But it is not really specific to isohybrid, but rather to the question what interfaces and early stage software has to be offered to the intended boot firmware. More or less the overall topic of SYSLINUX et.al. > As one of Didier's questions suggests, the _alternative_ methods seem > to be not clear enough. I am pondering about a translation table from isohybrid options to isohdp[fp]x*.bin and the terminology in the Mbr article. (Three terminologies for the same thing. Sometimes, choice is bad.) > > I showed three of the variants: isohybrid.pl, isoh...

...> But it is not really specific to isohybrid, but rather to > the question what interfaces and early stage software has to > be offered to the intended boot firmware. > More or less the overall topic of SYSLINUX et.al. > > > > As one of Didier's questions suggests, the _alternative_ methods seem > > to be not clear enough. > > I am pondering about a translation table from isohybrid options > to isohdp[fp]x*.bin and the terminology in the Mbr article. > (Three terminologies for the same thing. Sometimes, choice is bad.) > > > > > I showed t...

> Hi, > > > All the "isohybrid.exe" I know of are based on the Perl variant. > > I just got one from > http://www.filewatcher.com/m/isohybrid.exe.39568-0.html > > Its strings seem not to stem from isohybrid.pl. > > Digging in slitaz source brought a shell script (that would be > variant #5 then): >