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		arthurfm on June 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Samsung Kicks Off Mass Production of 8 TB NF1 SSDs... > I write "images" to it in ISO format but I keep wondering how long boot media will depend on emulating a spinning CD/DVD drive. Could UEFI HTTP Boot [1][2] replace the need to boot from ISOs? [1] https://firmwaresecurity.com/2015/05/09/new-uefi-http-boot-s... [2] http://ipxe.org/appnote/uefihttp

AstralStorm on June 22, 2018 [–]

Most UEFI systems nowadays can boot directly from VFAT partitions on USB drives and memory cards. Some even ExFAT. You can put your bootloader and FS drivers there.

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