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Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted



On 10/20/20 2:36 PM, Sam Imberman wrote:
> I burnt the image using Rufus on Windows, which IIRC should be fine, though
> I can do it with dd on a *nix machine later if someone thinks it may make a
> difference.

Most likely not. Tools like Rufus make weird assumptions and it has happened more
than once that one of these imaging tools create unusuable installation media [1].

I don't trust these tools.

Adrian

> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775689

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