Update install-os.md - #244
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Hopefully clarifying the usb boot process, removing a bracket, maybe more corporate design wording for "certain OSes" instead of supported OSes.
| contains the ISO installation media alongside of its detached signature). For | ||
| other OS, you will need to create USB installation media with using `dd` or | ||
| `unetbootin` etc.). | ||
| Heads boot process supports booting an OS ISO bootable media from normal EXT3/EXT4/ExFat |
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Please add FAT32 (and find a way to expose maximum file size of 4GB for it, which is the reason exFAT was added, but is not supported by all initramfs of iso. This is why linuxboot/heads#2130 was recently merged (to inspect ISO booting support, if the iso supports filesystem on which ISOs are dropped on, etc)
Note it is possible to boot an unsiged iso, just as screenshots in merged pr refers to.
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Thanks for your contribution @dispuser534 ! some comments and requests for change before merging.
Feel free to extract, use, detail more or quote/refer to linuxboot/heads#2130 if needed, and use this pull request to discuss things.
That is, why, documentation is not so easy: it tries to summarize a lot of important details, and not consider users to be technical gurus; while details will explain why things don't always work.
Heads in current state is "ventoy like" without compiled stuff outside of drivers and patches, bash scripts and kexec.
I think the best approach here is to try some of the main linux distros, as i did with linuxboot/heads#2130 comments, and try to get home the message to non-technical users while explaining just enough the technical details.
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Hopefully clarifying the usb boot process, removing a bracket, maybe more corporate design wording for "certain OSes" instead of supported OSes.