On Tue 15 Apr 2014 at 16:46:30 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > As suggested in #739767... > > unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many people to create > USB-bootable installer images, but these days seems responsible for > lots of user problems and difficult-to-resolve bug reports. > > If feasible, check to see if we were booted from unetbootin media. If > so, print a big warning to the user that unetbootin is potentially > problematic and not supported. (Maybe) let them continue after > acknowledging the warning anyway(?), but be sure to log the warning in > the syslog for the benefit of d-i developers.
I'm not particularly fond myself of advocating unetbootin to put an image on a USB stick but wouldn't something in the CD FAQ also be helpful. For example: https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2012/08/msg00053.html and https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2012/08/msg00053.html Writing to a CD gets some prominence, in spite of the defects it contains: https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2012/09/msg00049.html All of which need reviewing. And all of which may be totally useless :). I don't think we should be supporting anything which is not in the Installation Guide. Picking out one program for Debian's approbation seems a little extreme. Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/16042014180442.34619d1e6...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
