Besides the corrections others have said, I really can’t think of any reason people would intentionally use legacy BIOS on a machine with UEFI for a new install.
Like, I could get doing it for an old install - I know someone who installed Windows 7 in 2015 on their then-new desktop build and later upgraded to 10 but is stuck on legacy BIOS for now with that machine because 7 only ran on that.
I could see something similarly jank happening to someone in the Linux world and then decide not to address it for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it reasons”, but certainly not for no reason.
You’re talking about hats, right?
So boot floppies are right out?
And so are other derivatives. No cardoard either.
It’s probaly not needed at this point. You can get flash drives crazy cheap.
Any computer that meets the minimum requirements for Fedora will support booting from USB. The only reason left to boot from a DVD is if you need read only media for security purposes.
Or you know, MP3s on DVD for the car.
Do you boot Linux from your music player?
Sounds like a project to me!
Did you misread? They wrote “the only reason left to boot from a DVD”, so the use case you replied with has nothing to do with the topic.
And it’s getting harder to find decent optical drives. USB external ones are utter buttgarbage.
I was hopeful I would find a decent bluray drive to rip some movies I have but I cant see anything priced as I would have thought and decent.
I got a usb dvd one that works fine
I’ve got an old Dell that has a blu-ray burner built in. Thing is OLD, it’s got a Core i7 processor with a 3 digit model number. But it runs Mint just fine. I beat the hell out of the poor thing ripping my whole DVD collection, and basically it’s my optical media authoring box now. I rarely crank it up but if I truly need optical media made it’s what I turn to.
I just ripped the Blu-Ray drive from my father’s PC since he wasn’t using it.
Since my machine doesn’t have 5.25” bays, I just have SATA cables dangling out the side of the case. I’ve probably ripped more CDs than Blu-Rays, though.
Funnily enough my main computer does have a 5 1/4" bay. I wanted a Fractal meshify but there weren’t any in the world when I went to build my computer so I bought a Fractal Pop, and it has an optical bay down in the PSU basement.
It’ll definitely be a difficult undertaking, but I plan on really trying to have a 5.25” bay when I build another PC.
That probably won’t be for a couple more years, though. I’m on a Ryzen 5 2600 and RX 580, and I really don’t do that much intense gaming; a GPU upgrade is tempting so I can actually use ROCm for some casual Blender Cycles renders, though. I hope that the already dismal supply of those 5.25 cases doesn’t dwindle even more.
Get a Fractal Pop. It’s got a drive bay.
I have built a computer in a Fractal Meshify before, and I prefer that case, but the Pop is alright.
Ah thats a great idea! I got an optiplex second hand to try my hand at linux recently. I wonder if it has a bd drive. Its an i7 too.
I want to take all my media and rip it for sharing with the fam. Over covid I was putting things on my cloud for others to grab but I want to do a full jellyfin build now.
Mine is an old XPS box, and it’s kind of cool to have because it’s got a lot of obsolete hardware. A PCI slot, external SATA, it might even have Firewire. So it’s a relatively modern box I can run modern software on with old IO.
I mean I still use the iso attached to a virtual cd-rom to create virtual machines
Yeah but that’s not limited to physical DVD size constraints.
Sorry, the issue is size? Like, “we can’t fit into these clothes so we’re gonna go Jabba the Hut”, all naked and corpulent?
Lmfao, yes though the install ISO getting too large to fit on standard dvds
Damn it, on the very day my DVD burner arrived, right after the weekend when I switched to Fedora Atomic Sway. Oh this universe.
This doesn’t mean Fedora will not boot from DVDs anymore, it means any optical media bug won’t stop new Fedora release, any related bug will be squashed like any other regular bug after release
Thanks for the reply, I was mainly joking. The burner will be used for purposes other than burning Fedora images, but I found it funny how it all came together yesterday.
They say the best time to burn a DVD is 20 years ago. Next best time is today.
I think 20 years ago is about the last time I used a DVD
Well if they could get it to fit on a mini-dvd or a CD then nothing would be lost but I guess pre-UEFI systems are slowly going to be abandoned. (Guess coreboot community needs more funding)
My pre-UEFI system can boot from a USB drive.
Most still-functional ones can.
yeah, i think you’d have to make a lot of effort to find a pc newer than 20 years old that doesn’t support usb booting
Here… I still have one :(
damn
and i thought my computer was obsolete. i bought it “new” 10 years ago, but i optimized for price, so it was already obsolete then. still, it supports usb booting
Don’t forget that a lot of people still prefers legacy BIOS, even on modern system.
But most of those should support booting from USB devices.
