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</div><div> Some sticks out there have a read-only switch. Maybe you need one of those!<br>
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Howard Gibson
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Wed 04/09/24 11:43 AM , "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" talk@gtalug.org sent:<br>
</span><blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #F5F5F5 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Old news, I know. But I've been burned again.<br>
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A Fedora installation USB stick, prepared by dd-ing the .iso file onto the <br>
raw stick works fine.<br>
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But if you have that stick in the computer, and Windows sees it, it will <br>
drop a few bytes on it. The result is that the stick cannot be used to <br>
boot Fedora (until you rewrite it). Sheesh.<br>
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Why did it happen to me, when I know of the problem? To run the stick, <br>
during power on, I have to hit a key to get into the <br>
choose-a-device-to-boot-from menu. It's a race, and sometimes I lose.<br>
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