• Re: Bug#1056998: cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it

    From Pete Batard@21:1/5 to Ram Reddy on Tue Nov 28 19:40:01 2023
    Hi Ram,

    In case you plugged your media at any time on a Windows system, please
    be aware that Windows automatically creates a 'System Volume
    Information/' directory, along with a bunch of small files, on any file
    system it can handle, which would include the FAT16/FAT32 file systems typically used by an ESP.

    The end result of this is that, for media such as Debian that includes
    an ESP in the form of an 'efi.img', validation checks of that efi.img
    file are likely to fail if the media was ever plugged on Windows...

    Now, I see no clear hint from your testing that you used any Windows
    host in the process. But I thought I would mention that just in case.

    Regards,

    /Pete

    On 2023.11.28 17:53, Ram Reddy wrote:
    Hello,
    Thomas Schmitt wrote:

    I'd say that corruption of ISO image or USB is quite unlikely.
    [ . . . ]
    It would be interesting to check whether any errors get reported if the
    ISO is presented on a read-only CD or DVD instead of a writable USB
    stick.

    Thank you for the suggestion for trying a CD / DVD read only installation media. Unfortunately I don't have one at hand, and there are none in
    the stores here. The only option seems to be to order one online, which will take a few days to ship.

    When I get the disks, I'll test using the installer with them.
    Thanks for the help!

    Have a great day;
    Ram

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