From: josef@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 26.04.23 06:23, Gordon wrote:   
   > On 2023-04-25, Josef Möllers  wrote:   
   >> On 25.04.23 17:56, Mike Easter wrote:   
   >>> Josef Moellers wrote:   
   >>>> Do I need a DL DVD?   
   >>>   
   >>> It has been YEARS since I burned an optical for a linux .iso.  I have   
   >>> stacks and stacks of old CDs w/ linux, and much smaller such dusty   
   >>> collections of linux on DVD.   
   >>   
   >> I have a disk (HDD) that I keep ISO images on and whatever I then need,   
   >> I burn onto a DVDRW, so I avoid having too much plastic lying around.   
   >>   
   >>>    I've put hundreds on USB since those days,   
   >>> and currently my linux USBs are almost all Ventoy.   
   >>>   
   >>> Is there any special reason you need to go optical?   
   >>   
   >> No, as long as I can boot from the medium, I'm fine.   
   >> I hadn't been aware that one can boot an ISO from a USB stick.   
   >>   
   >> Having said that ... I have now burned 20.04 (without the ".2") on the   
   >> RW and was about to install from that and have the installer pull in the   
   >> newer packages.   
   >>   
   >> But I may try a stick, having several lying around.   
   >>   
   > Please find the time to do so. It is likely that 5GB Linux isos will become   
   > more frequent. Sooner or later one has to move with the times.   
   >   
   > As suggested Ventoy is your first port of call. However some iso fail to   
   > boot from Ventoy, only a few. In this case Etcher is the second port of   
   > call.   
      
   These are names that do not mean anything to me (Europe/Germany), so   
   I'll try a generic stick and go from there if that fails.   
      
   Thanks to all for enlightening me,   
      
   Josef   
      
   PS I have retired a few months ago. Before that I had colleagues that I   
   could just ask, this is much more difficult now.   
      
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