.<snipped all> Dear Thomas,
In response to https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2018/03/msg00005.html Thank you for sharing the info. I probably will try to get a couple of usb sticks next week for work and probably will also try to see how rufus responds and if possible get in touch with Pete Batard to take the discussion forward. I found it pretty disconcerting especially for students or for that matter anybody who wants to take the plunge into Debian and get stuck like that. I also perhaps failed to mention that rufus tried to install syslinux instead of grub2 which at least to me feels more convenient and friendly but that's a discussion outside of this purview. During a discussion with Steve Mcntyre during debconf 2016, he had shared about both the unrealiability of the usb drives themselves as well as the data so now always use shasums to make sure the data stream is correct. This https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb I had already done before. I used the built-in certutil and Get-FileHash on MS-Windows powershell to make sure the sum was correct. Now that I'm on Debian GNU/Linux did as I had copied the same on one of my usb disks, the .iso image which I just transferred to the hdd. shirish@debian:~/games$ ./check_debian_iso SHA1SUMS debian-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso Piping 331776 blocks of 'debian-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso' through 'sha1sum' to verify checksum list item 'debian-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso'. 331776+0 records in 331776+0 records out 679477248 bytes (679 MB, 648 MiB) copied, 1.35603 s, 501 MB/s Ok: 'debian-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso' matches 'debian-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso' in 'SHA1SUMS' although trying to do the same with /dev/sdb or /dev/sdb1 results in - shirish@debian:~/games$ ./check_debian_iso SHA1SUMS debian-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso /dev/sdb Does not look like an ISO 9660 filesystem: '/dev/sdb' magic=' ' That's the usb key/thumb drive on which debian iso image is done by unetbootin. Although it appears to have worked though as was able to get a working Debian GNU/Linux system at the end, was able to get updates, get the net working and so on and so forth. FTR, I could have used cp or dd but that would have been only if I had taken my lappy that day. It should not be a requirement that we should have a debian laptop because in real-world scenarios many people not might have access to an installation nor should they require one, although do agree it's handy if it's there. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
