bob prohaska wrote:
> Tried it a second time after unzipping the image using
> dd and a 1M block size. The write finished in minutes and fsck finds
> error-free filesystems.

I wrote it/ the .img/ w/ the Win Etcher via a USB2 adapter.  It spent 15
min doing the write and verification process for the 7G .img.

That is, I dl/ed the torrent which fetched the .zip which sha256 hashed
ok which I unzipped to the 7G img which I wrote w/  Win etcher.  I
considered using Win Rufus in dd mode, but I wanted to see some more
etcher operation.  I've used Rufus quite a lot and I would consider it
my 'favorite' usb .iso writer except that it can't do persistence or
multiboot writing, so it is just for non-persistent one-off/s.

For persistence using Ub (and some Deb) distros, I like mkusb from its
.ppa repo best.  For multiboot I usually use the Win Yumi, which can
also do persistence, but it sometimes doesn't work w/ distro/s which
aren't in its stable/line-up.

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Mike Easter

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