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Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)



On 4/3/24 08:16, David Wright wrote:
On Tue 02 Apr 2024 at 05:54:06 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote:
Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen:
A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian
installer.  Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+ flash drive and try again.

A friend of mine just let me use an external CD-Drive with the netboot
image.

I thought about suggesting that in my last post, but did not want to
complicate things.  A key advantage of using a CD-R disc is that you
can verify the disc contents and/or checksum against the ISO and/or
checksum now and in the future.  This is not true for a USB flash
drive, because the Debian installer modifies the contents of the USB
flash drive when it runs.

If this troubles you, you can also use an SD card with a write-lock,
or a µSD card with a lock on the SD adaptor.

Check that the write-lock works with the logs when you plug it in,
or run fdisk/gdisk and immediately quit.

Cheers,
David.


I have a 128 MB USB flash drive from back in the day that includes a write protect switch. There are few products today that offer that feature.


David



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