David Christensen wrote: > 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 it is an iso image copied to the USB stick it should not be modified if you haven't somehow told the installer to install the system to that USB stick (somehow). i guess if you wanted to be really sure you could mount it read-only. songbird
