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New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

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I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop which
has no installed OS on it.

It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty bay
where I will install a Samsung evo 860 1 Tb SSD.

I would like to use a live image on a large USB for preparing the disks
before installing Win 10 and then Deb 9.

Some questions:

1. What is the best filesystem (FS) to use on the USB? They usually come
with a FAT32 or exFAT FS, but I have in the past made them exFAT. As I
understand it, I believe I can just copy the Debian CD live iso image file
onto the USB and it will be found and booted from fine.

2. If a straight copy works as in question 1, is there any problem with
adding other files on the USB? I have a 64 Gb USB I would like to use for
both a live image as well as storing other files on it.

Given that I'm starting with two clean drives, my plan is to use the small
disk for Win 10 and the other for Debian and maybe have a small partition
to experiment with a BSD OS.

3. Any suggestions as to partitioning given the advantages of the new (to
me) GPT disk formats?

4. Which partitioning program is best to use? I am used to using fdisk and
parted, but I see partion manager mentioned.

Thanks so much.

Best regards,

-Tom

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New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 14:10 +0200
  Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-04-11 16:30 +0200
  Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 20:50 +0200
    Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-04-11 21:40 +0200
      Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 10:20 +0200
        Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-04-12 16:40 +0200
        Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-12 18:30 +0200
          Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 21:50 +0200
            Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-13 00:00 +0200
              Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-13 00:10 +0200
    Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-04-11 23:40 +0200
      Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 10:20 +0200
        Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-04-12 14:20 +0200
          Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 22:00 +0200
  Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-04-12 05:10 +0200
    Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 16:20 +0200
      Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-04-12 20:50 +0200
    Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Thomas D Dial <tdial@acm.org> - 2019-04-12 22:50 +0200
      Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-04-13 08:30 +0200
        Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Thomas D Dial <tdial@acm.org> - 2019-04-14 03:40 +0200
    Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-04-13 05:00 +0200
  Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2019-04-25 13:30 +0200

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