Re: Windows eats Fedora installation USB stick

2018-04-13 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/13/2018 08:08 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 04/13/2018 03:17 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: And be careful with THAT operating system, shutdown and reboot are suspend and not shutdown.  You have to turn "Fast Boot" off and do a real shutdown to get it to take. Actually, "restart" _always_ does

Re: Windows eats Fedora installation USB stick

2018-04-13 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/13/2018 03:17 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: And be careful with THAT operating system, shutdown and reboot are suspend and not shutdown.  You have to turn "Fast Boot" off and do a real shutdown to get it to take. Actually, "restart" _always_ does a full shutdown and restart regardless of the

Re: Windows eats Fedora installation USB stick

2018-04-13 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/13/2018 10:10 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: When that happens, Windows always seems to damage the image on the USB stick. What the heck is up with that? Hi Hugh, I have to work on THAT operating system whose name I shall not mention A LOT. Not that I want to. My customer base is

Re: Windows eats Fedora installation USB stick

2018-04-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/13/2018 10:10 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: But sometimes the firmware escapes me and Windows is booted. For example, if I am not quick enough typing ESC / DEL / F12 / whatever to steer the firmware to boot the USB stick. Try this: start your computer without the USB drive inserted.

Re: Windows eats Fedora installation USB stick

2018-04-13 Thread Danny Horne via users
On 13/04/18 18:10, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > Sometimes when I try to install Fedora, Windows eats my installation > USB stick. > > Fedora is distributed as a .iso (a CD/DVD image). This image is cleverly > designed such that if you dump it, byte for byte, onto a USB stick (not > into a

Re: Windows eats Fedora installation USB stick

2018-04-13 Thread Joerg Lechner via users
Mitteilung- Von: D. Hugh Redelmeier <h...@mimosa.com> An: users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> Verschickt: Fr, 13. Apr 2018 19:11 Betreff: Windows eats Fedora installation USB stick Sometimes when I try to install Fedora, Windows eats my installation USB stick. Fedora is distribut

Windows eats Fedora installation USB stick

2018-04-13 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
Sometimes when I try to install Fedora, Windows eats my installation USB stick. Fedora is distributed as a .iso (a CD/DVD image). This image is cleverly designed such that if you dump it, byte for byte, onto a USB stick (not into a filesystem), you get a stick that can be booted. I install by