Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I have used Rufus previously and note Pete Batard's take on this. > Nonetheless, DD mode is *exactly* what you need to make Rufus write > the Debian iso well as far as I understand it.
The Debian CD FAQ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb could need a tangible description how to achieve the DD mode of Rufus. Rufus is popular in the MS-Windows world and the program https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ which is proposed by the FAQ seems to have seen no update since 2018. It would also be interesting to know whether Rufus writes Debian ISOs in ISO mode by default, and whether the results i usable for installation. Examination of the ISO and of the resulting USB stick by e.g. /sbin/fdisk -l would show whether Rufus unpacked the ISO into a different partition structure compared to the partition structure of the ISO. (Pete Batard and i agree that the Debian ISO partitions are the ugliest possible. We differ in the assessment whether the ISOs' ability to boot via the largest set of amd64 firmwares is a valid excuse for ugliness.) Have a nice day :) Thomas
