Re: Bug#1034389: installation-reports: bookworm cannot install base system

On 15/04/2023 at 02:49, Steve Witt wrote:
> On 04/15, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>>
>> It seems that the USB drive capacity is slightly smaller than the ISO image
>> size.
>>
>> USB drive capacity: 7700480 sectors / 3.94 GB / 3.67 GiB
>> DVD-1 image size:   7758432 sectors / 3.97 GB / 3.70 GiB
>>
>> The DVD image size is slightly lower than 4 GB to fit into most 4-GB USB
>> drives but unfortunately there are USB drives whose actual capacity is
>> significantly lower than the rated capacity.
>>
>> Didn't it trigger an error when writing the image to the USB drive ?
> 
> In recreating writing the image to the USB drive (with dd), it did
> show an error, but previously I didn't notice that. So of course it
> didn't work properly. I'm very sorry for the spurious bug report and
> the waste of your time.

OK, thanks for confirming. debian-cd maintainers may consider reducing 
the DVD-1 image size a bit more to fit in smaller USB drives.