What is the difference between download options?

[ABC4130]

I really don't know which .img or .iso file I need, and there is no documentation explaining the differences.

What does Vanilla DRM mean?
what is difference between Vanilla DRM and Vanilla?

What is difference between Ventoy Vanilla DRM and Ventoy nomodeset NoDRM?

v0.35 | ShredOS .img x86_64bit for USB Vanilla DRM
v0.35 | ShredOS .iso x86_64bit for CD/DVD, Ventoy Vanilla DRM
v0.35 | ShredOS .iso x86_64bit for CD/DVD, Ventoy nomodeset NoDRM
v0.35 | ShredOS .img i586_32bit for USB Vanilla
v0.35 | ShredOS .iso i586_32bit for CD/DVD

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Good point, there needs to be an explanation of these terms.

It all depends on the computer you plan to wipe and the computer you are going to use to create a ShredOS bootable USB stick i.e. does the computer you are going to use to create the ShredOS USB boot disc have a Microsoft Windows, Linux or Apple MAC operating system?

If you want to create the ShredOS Bootable USB stick/flash drive using a Windows computer you would download a program called Rufus and use that to burn the x86_64 .img version of ShredOS to the USB drive. This is probably the most common method. Linux and MAC users will often use the dd command as the command line alternative to Rufus. dd and Rufus achieve the same purpose but are very different in how they achieve their goal.

The .iso files are for creating a ShredOS bootable DVD/CD. Use this if you system has a DVD/CD player. However Ventoy users also use .iso files to create a USB flash drive. Ventoy is a more specialist way of creating a USB drive that can contain multiple .Iso files.

Vanilla is the standard release with no modifications.

DRM/noDRM. DRM stands for Display Rendering Manager. The version with DRM is the standard version and contains special software for rendering the display. However on a small minority of computers DRM doesn't work so you would choose noDRM. Always try DRM first, and if it doesn't work i.e no nwipe program displayed try noDRM.version.

nomodeset & nodrm version. This is your last resort. If non of the other work try this one.

Hope that helps.

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Oh, I forgot i586 and x64_86

Most computers built since about about 2000 are x86 (64 bit) computers. If the computer you want to boot ShredOS on is post 2000. Use a x64_86 version. If the computer was built prior to or around 2000 the computer maybe 32 bit i.e i586 then use a i586. If you are unsure try the x86 version and if that doesn't work try the i586 version.

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Oh, one other thing. It doesn't matter to ShredOS what operating system is on the computer you want to wipe. ShredOS will destroy everything on the target computer including the operating system.

It only matters which operating system you have when creating the ShredOS USB flash drive.

Linux and MAC users would use a command line program called dd to create the ShredOS USB drive. Linux users tend to be a different breed though and were probably born knowing this stuff. 😊

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nomodeset & nodrm version. This is your last resort. If non of the other work try this one.

Actually, it's good you brought this up. nomodeset and noDRM are one and the same thing. nomodeset is the command applied to the kernel command line to disable DRM. nomodeset should probably say noapic. However, irrespective, this version is still your last resort when none of the other work.

[argumemnon]

Thank you for the clarification!