can't install dragon fly bsd from iso
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Aeul289 · 2023-04-15 22:49

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I get the normal dragon fly ascii art with the options but then I get
this

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nawcom · 2023-04-19 06:12

Did you burn it onto a DVD? That's what ISOs / ISO 9660 filesystems
are for. For booting from a usb stick you image the .img file for
that: https://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/iso-
images/dfly-x86_64-6.4.0_REL.img.bz2

Most Linux distributions' install media use Syslinux, and a feature
built into [syslinux's bootloader, ISOLINUX has a special hybrid
feature for working with booting from both optical media and hard
drive
media](https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Isohybrid). With
this, you just have to image the raw ISO data to the drive, just how
you would if you burned that same ISO file to a DVD-R. Other operating
systems' install media do not use this due to the major differences
between booting optical media versus hard drives / flash drives.
Unfortunately this has normalized the idea that one can image any ISO
to a flash drive and it will work which is not true at all.

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Aeul289 · 2023-04-19 19:21

Oh I'm used to isos "just working". I'm on usb and I was using the
.iso but I have the .img now. Although I'm having a different issue
now.
http://0x0.st/H86b.jpg

 I tried ext4:nvme0 but it didn't work.