Re: installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3 now working
On Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 20:57:48 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 11:16:07AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> >
> > On 3/29/22 10:32, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Again, I wouldn't use Balena Etcher - I would use dd if you have
> > > a Linux machine around - you can always reformat the USB drive afterwards.
> >
> >
> > FWIW Balena Etcher worked and my attempt with dd did not.
>
> One of the caveats with dd (or cat, or...) is that you might
> be tempted to pull the USB stick too early, while the write
> is still flushing data out. With big sticks and big RAMs the
> effect is more pronounced. I have the impression that I've
> had less failures since then (perhaps I'm of the impatient
> kind, who knows ;-)
A reasonable observation. However, it should be noted that there has
never been a well-documneted case of dd, cat or cp failing. I doubt
the OP will provide substantial reproducible evidence, whatever
"worked" meant.
--
Brian.
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