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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Wow - Oracle Linux - 10+ Gigabyte ISO !
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:14:56 +0200
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On 2026-09-16 02:33, rbowman wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:32:20 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
>> It works fine in a fat formatted thumb drive, because the installation
>> process destroys the format and uses its own instead.
> 
> What installation process in copying an iso to a thumbdrive?

dd if=isofile.iso of=/dev/sda

>> Who is using a fat stick to save isos today, anyway? Not Linux users.
>> Use exfat at least.
> 
> This Linux user happened to have an older thumb drive laying around. I
> never worried about the format since I wasn't copying any files greater
> than 4 GB.

:-D

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Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.