Tails - Replacing balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows
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I am shocked by this - the quote in below is very concerning:

“However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties.”

Can’t see myself using this software anymore…

  • Maiq@lemy.lol
    3·
    2 days ago

    Did you make sure that the of is correct? lsblk to make sure.

    If your sure it wrote to the right drive i would make sure that you have a good download. Did you run your checksums?

    I think fedora works with secureboot but you might want to disable it just to see if that is the issue. I believe you can reenable it after install.

    Make sure to go into the bios and boot from external drive/usb.

    Out of 15 years of using dd i have never had a problem.

    • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 days ago

      I did verify with lsblk, with a listing before and after plugging in the stick to be absolutely sure.

      I also did verify the checksum of the ISO.

      I’ll double check SecureBoot, but as I mentioned, the same ISO written to the same stick with Fedora writer did boot in the same machine it wouldn’t boot from with the dd version.

      I know it’s something I did or didn’t do to make it work correctly, so this is not me trying to dunk on dd, just trying to understand what I did wrong.