Just bought a brand new thumb drive and tried flashing Garuda Linux ISO to it and it gets to “94% Validating…” and hangs forever. I brought up DevTools (CTRL+SHIFT+I) and everything is empty including the console. Please help.

ok, so i just tried flashing Garuda Linux to it for the 4th time… and it worked!!! happy, but why so many tries i wonder… anyway ill let you know if i’m able to boot from it a little later. thanks for all your help. Merry Christmas! :christmas_tree:

Hangs at 84% While Flashing Linux ISO to Thumb Drive

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jakogut December 23, 2020, 6:19pm 17

Hi Patrick,

Sometimes flash drives can be finicky, I’m glad you got it working!

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