On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 08:19:18AM -0500, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> > I.... gave those reasons in my initial message? Have you experienced a
> > specific case where bad USB media caused a corrupt install?
>       If by corrupt install you mean the fedora install froze after
> USB booted and before it told the install was successful, yes. Like
> early this year (so I guess it is too far in the past to be relevant
> to this discussion). Interestingly enough I then dd'ed ubuntu -- just
> needed to test hardware so any distro with the latest kernel would do
> -- in it because I thought it was a hardware incompatibility issue and
> it worked well enough to finish my tests.

To me, the install freezing is not a lot different from the media check
freezing. We can tell people: if that happens, it's probably a bad USB
stick. The case that would be really concerning to me if bad media caused an
install to appear to work but then not boot.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mat...@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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