Hi, Hans wrote: > Maybe you might want to add a suggestion for readers, which might be the > best way, to get an ISO to an usb-stick?
That's the actual topic of that wiki page. Just scroll up and read it from start. > The debian manual suggests using the "dd" command and claims, not to use > Rufus, as it might not work. Which manual in particular ? https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.en.html warns of unetbootin, but not of Rufus. > I myself made good eperiences with dcfldd instead of using dd. Yes. There are many ways to do the copying. It is the choice of the target device file that i deem most risky. xorriso-dd-target strives to make this choice unambiguous by asking the user to newly plug in the intended USB stick at step 2 of its dialog. > As these are large files (greater than 25GB), > the danger, something gets lost during copy, is high. That would be quite a bad USB stick, then. Normally a good USB stick takes its capacity worth of data without error or alteration. The new section in XorrisoDdTarget is for making sure that you don't suffer from the unnormal cases. How often do you experience bad copy runs ? > A little side effect of this was, that some manufacturers obviously do not > like ext2/3/4 format (to which the usb-stick were reformatted). After about > 10th to 15th time of reformate, they died (memory segments got lost). A good USB stick's firmware will care for wear leveling, so that frequently overwritten logical blocks get written to different physical blocks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling Have a nice day :) Thomas
