Re: [GTALUG] Windows eats Fedora installation sticks

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Hugh, Some sticks out there have a read-only switch. Maybe you need one of those! -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson 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. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org [1] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk Links: ------ [1] mailto:talk@gtalug.org

Does this affect a Ventoy USB?

From: Ivan Avery Frey via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
Does this affect a Ventoy USB?
My guess is no, but I haven't tried it. My guess is that Windows it trying to update a timestamp on the partially-faked filesystem in the .iso image.
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D. Hugh Redelmeier
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Howard Gibson
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Ivan Avery Frey