Funny how we still call it a CD image, are there actually any AArch64 Windows laptops with a CD drive? Can you even boot from an external CD drive on such laptops?
Update: some enterprise UEFI setups do boot from DVDs but the ISO should be a hybrid type (aka must have EFI-style partitions).
> To boot from a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM in the boot services environment, an EFI System partition is stored in a “no emulation” mode as defined by the “El Torito” specification.
This was chosen specifically to allow polyglot ISO files that can both be booted bh UEFI and legacy BIOS. The implementation of tools to create such polyglot files are, to say the least, interesting. The tools effectively generate both a FAT and ISO partition, each having its own file information table, but sharing the actual file contents.
Phoenix and IBM coming up with a standard. Wonder if that was still a hard pill the swallow in 1995.
But I'm sure the bad blood was measurable, especially for the higher-ups.
[0] https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch04s03.html.en
Me neither!
Of course, in practice with optic media you may stumble upon varying forms of bit rot, scratches or recording errors so it's definitively not the be-all and end-all, but still, I've got CDs recorded 30 years ago I can still read in modern systems and that I won't wipe by accident.