Package: installation-report Severity: wishlist Hello,
The current process for creating an Debian installer USB stick is the following: 1. get boot.img.gz; 2. zcat it to the USB stick, 3. optional: 3.1. try to boot that, 3.2. fail, 3.3. read the installation manual; 4. get a proper CD image; 5. mount the USB stick; 6. put the CD image to the stick; 7. umount. As a point of comparison, here is the corresponding process for creating a Debian installer CD: 1. get the CD image; 2. burn it to the blank CD. So, right now, creating a CD is simple and intuitive – for someone that knows what an ISO image is –, and creating an USB stick is not. An beginner that already knows practical computing basics would be able to create a CD, not a USB stick. Even an already advanced user would have problems for creating an USB stick, as it is not obvious that he has to refer to the documentation for such a task. I suggest to create complete default USB stick images, bundling the CD image in them. That would allow a new, simpler and intuitive creation process for users: 1. get hd-media.img.gz; 2. zcat it to the USB stick. For people using alien systems, there would also be an interrest in non-compressed images, writeable with tools such as Win32DiskImager [1]. References: [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Win32DiskImager Regards, -- Tanguy Ortolo -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (60, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.2-xxxx-std-ipv6-32 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash installation-report depends on no packages. Versions of packages installation-report recommends: ii pciutils 1:3.0.0-6 Linux PCI Utilities ii reportbug 3.48 reports bugs in the Debian distrib installation-report suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100222171806.19382.55447.report...@verne.ortolo.eu
