Hi, Lee wrote: > Oops.. I wrote to the stick using the Cygwin cp on an MS-Windows > machine, so I'm guessing the damage was done even before ejecting the > stick.
MS-Windows can eject a stick ? xorriso silently fails to do so: xorriso -outdev stdio:/dev/sdc -eject out (Sorry i could not refrain from this nonsense :)) > But I'm more interested in what went wrong than exactly where > the write/verification failed. IIRC i once learned from a report about a "FAILED" md5sum.txt check that it was the EFI partition which got altered and that various proprietary software companies feel entitled to add (rather harmless) files to any FAT filesystem which their software can see. > so yeah, the obvious conclusion is that "what went wrong" is that I > used a Windows machine. *sigh* Well, you have to expect such things to happen there. They wipe your bottom and your nose ... using the same cloth. > As a very low priority, how was I able to install Debian on my laptop > and have everything work when I did the exact same thing for my > laptop? Maybe this time you pulled out the stick and put it back in while MS-Windows was still running ? I have no tangible idea other than to propose to do some experiments. Have a nice day :) Thomas
