Thank you!
So, I decided to give the “Loading basic drivers” step some patience and after 56 minutes, it finally proceeded to the installation. I don’t know what that was about, but do you think it has affected my install in any way? I’m up and running fine now, though yesterday I made a new post with a slight “issue” concerning GRUB where my previous OS (Debian) was, and still is an entry in my boot options. Since I don’t have the “Loading basic drivers” problem anymore, I want to close this thread and mark is as resolved. Even though I would be thankful to know why it took 56 minutes haha.
As for your question, I don’t fully understand. Before I used dd to put the .iso on the USB, I umounted the USB and did mkfs.vfat to make it FAT32.