Porteus

Just wondering - when dearchiving an iso using Engrampa or other gui dearchiver, I sometime see two boot folders. One lowercase, and another uppercase surrounded by brackets.

boot
[BOOT]

Normally I don't use a dearchiver, but merely mount and copy the folders to my target drive. And when I do make a stick with a dearchiver, I normally don't copy over the uppercase [BOOT] which contains just an img file.

Just wondering. I can do it both ways either mount-n-copy, or dearchive the iso, but wonder if there is an advantage or disadvantage to NOT copying over the uppercase [BOOT] folder.

The only boot folder that counts when booting is the one from the ISO.

You can ignore/delete [BOOT]folder, I think, it is hidden folder may useful for burning image to cd/dvd.

Thanks! Yep, I did some searching, and this topic was discussed right here a few years ago. We can ignore it. Part of the iso creation process it seems.
The brackets indicate it is a special folder/directory that we can ignore. I only see it with dearchivers like xarchiver, engrampa and the like if one goes that path, rather than simply mounting the iso and copying the folders within over to the target drive.