On 2025-08-04, David Christensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you, Thomas, for finding that. So, I AIUI the d-i does not modify > the USB flash drive, but the motherboard firmware can (BIOS/EFI/UEFI) > and some operating systems can. The result is that the ISO checksum and > the USB flash drive checksum will differ. So, verification of the USB > flash drive must be done immediately after burning and later checksums > are not meaningful.
I don't understand this. The iso image isn't modified, and you can verify the integrity of that image independent of the drive itself. > David > >
