Why there isn't an ISO file for Raspberry Pi / arm7 ?

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#1 Sat, 2017-11-25 17:29

bguyl

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Hi, Alpine noob here :)

I see there are ISO files for x64, x86.

I was wondering why there was only tar.gz files for Raspberry Pi.
It make the install way too complicated.

Is this intented for customization or is this techninal limitations ?
Or something else ?

#2 Tue, 2018-02-06 21:21

jodumont

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it might not the right answer but an ISO is intend to be a CD-rom image
I never saw a CDdrive on a raspi.

Also, usually, an ISO contain a Live-CD Linux, which is not writable so it intend to mount temporary resource in RAM via loop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_device)

Now for the tar.gz format; it is more a backup which you extract on you SDCard.