Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick
On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 20:25:04 +0100, Joe wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:03:01 +0100
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > If a reformatted USB stick on Debian isn't "maximally compatible" I
> > could understand the steering towards using Windows for the operation.
> > I don't have Windows but many do. They are the ones to test and
> > report.
>
> And I do. My server, home workstation and netbook run Debian, my
> working laptop and my wife's workstation run Windows, as do all of my
> clients. My experience is that Windows is sometimes fussy about
> Linux-formatted media, hence my advice.
I acknowledge your experience and expertise and recognise its relevance
to the OP's question. Maybe Debian cannot ever get it right when it
comes to this interworking with other filesystems.
--
Brian.
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