Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > Should have I expected this result?
As far as the parted report is concerned: Yes. > parted /dev/sdb print > RESULTING IN FOLLOWING > Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 > bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes. > Partition Table: mac It probably complains that the Apple Partition Map blocksize 2048 is not the same as the device block size. That's ok. Device block size 512 is expected for the use of the partition tables inside the bootable debian-cd ISOs. (It is rather questionable whether the Apple Partition Map is used by any boot firmware. Especially since there is no HFS+ partition.) There is also an MBR (aka "DOS") partition table. Inquire by $ /sbin/fdisk -l debian-9.0.0-i386-netinst.iso ... Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type debian-9.0.0-i386-netinst.iso1 * 0 767999 768000 375M 0 Empty debian-9.0.0-i386-netinst.iso2 3868 4475 608 304K ef EFI (FAT-12/16 The type "Empty" of partition 1 is an essential feature, not a bug. With any other type, EFI would not accept partition 2. With the 9.0.0 ISO i get from parted Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 2048B 6143B 4096B Apple 2 1980kB 2292kB 311kB EFI The first partition is the Apple Partition Map itself. The second partition marks the same block range as the EFI partition in the MBR partition table. But parted's kB are merchant's KB (1000, not 1024), whereas fdisk reports blocks of 512 bytes. 3868 * 512 = 1,980,416 Have a nice day :) Thomas
