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> Of course Windows gets the worse version of it.. Not really. Linux/Macs get iso, which has install.wim larger than 4GB. That means, you cannot copy it to FAT
by vetinari 7y ago
> Of course Windows gets the worse version of it..
Not really. Linux/Macs get iso, which has install.wim larger than 4GB. That means, you cannot copy it to FAT-32 formatted USB and boot it; you have to burn it (or mount as virtual cd in vm).
Alternative would be using dism to split it, but for that, you need working windows machine, leading to chicken-egg problem.
The windows version, although it gets media creator, has install.esd instead of install.wim (with different compression), so it fits into FAT32-formatted filesystem.
- withinrafael 7y agoMainstream motherboard OEMs ship UEFI firmware that contains drivers to handle NTFS at boot.
- vetinari 7y agoSome of them, it is not mandatory. The quality of implementations varies, some are so terrible, that they have problem with remembering what the user configured (hi, Gigabyte).
- earenndil 7y agoYou can use exfat and it will fit.
- gruez 7y agothat's technically not supported by the UEFI standard.
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