Hugh,

   Some sticks out there have a read-only switch.  Maybe you need one of those!


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Howard Gibson
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On Wed 04/09/24 11:43 AM , "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" talk@gtalug.org sent:
Old news, I know. But I've been burned again.

A Fedora installation USB stick, prepared by dd-ing the .iso file onto the
raw stick works fine.

But if you have that stick in the computer, and Windows sees it, it will
drop a few bytes on it. The result is that the stick cannot be used to
boot Fedora (until you rewrite it). Sheesh.

Why did it happen to me, when I know of the problem? To run the stick,
during power on, I have to hit a key to get into the
choose-a-device-to-boot-from menu. It's a race, and sometimes I lose.
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