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Comment by duskwuff

1 year ago

No. Disk images aren't involved in the OS update process.

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happyopossum  1 year ago

They are - in that OS updates are delivered in and extracted from disk images. Not sure how they could be any more involved…

  • duskwuff  1 year ago

    Not this kind of disk image. ASIF is a read-write disk image; an OS update would be distributed in a read-only image (if it is indeed a disk image).

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