Hi, David Christensen wrote: > Beware that the Debian installer (d-i) can change the contents of the USB > flash drive when it runs (!).
I am not aware that the Debian installer writes into the byte range of the ISO 9660 filesystem. The ISO 9660 filesystem itself is quite safe from being overwritten. But MS-Windows or the boot firmware might decide to add files to the EFI partition which is advertised by the partition table in the System Area of the ISO filesystem. > I reported the above on this list sometime in the past (few years?), but am > unable to locate the thread at this time. I seem to recall the report was > confirmed, but the details were not where I had guessed. Possibly https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/04/msg00040.html to which i replied in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/04/msg00045.html and pointed to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998 Time is circular ... or rather Jeremy Bearimy. > I have burned my most recent d-i images to CD-R discs I heartfully support the use of optical media. :)) Have a nice day :) Thomas
