ISO Images

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Many of you have asked us to create ISO images for BeOS Installations. This article comes to clear out some misconceptions about BeOS Installations.


BeOS images are ISO images. But not ISO Images in the sense Windows sees them. Those ISO contain FAT32 or FAT16 compliant filesystems. ISO9660 compliant is a FAT32 system. BeOS uses BeFS which is a 64bit journaling filesystem that stores a lot of the file info in different places such as file attributes. If we were to create an installation of BeOS using an ISO9660 image (one that can be read by IsoBuster) it wouldn't Install!!!! The CD would lose all of the extended file attributes that BeFS supports (and needs). Ie, If you copied files from an ISO9660 CD to BeOS, some of them would be useless.

Installation of BeOS requires BeFS Images. THAT'S IT.

And we won't fix it. It's not a bug, it's a feature.


NOTE: YOU CAN ASK THE COMPANIES THAT CREATE ISOBUSTER AND WINIMAGE TO SUPPORT BeFS.


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