On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 5:25 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > 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 it isn't nonsense. Welcome to the world of Windowz, where one 'ejects' a USB stick and then gets a pop-up saying something about safe to remove the hardware now. Maybe there's a command to unmount / sync / whatever a USB stick but I've always used Windows Explorer and the only option for what to do before unplugging a USB stick is to eject it. > > 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. Well, no.. I used to have bash scripts that worked on SunOS and then later Red Hat as well as cygwin. I've gotten used to things Just Working across platforms, so this failing is a bit of a surprise. > They wipe your bottom and your nose ... using the same cloth. They certainly are getting more .. abusive parental, thinking they know better than you and doing whatever regardless of what you want. > > 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. Me either. I'm not going to worry about it - other than reinstall Debian on my laptop from a USB stick written on a Debian machine :) Regards Lee
