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.
