So, some progress on this front. I've filed a bug against unetbootin itself to ask for warnings "Don't use this for Debian CD images" (#775689) and there has been some discussion there.
I've now tried the current stable and unstable versions of unetbootin myself with the latest Jessie d-i RC1 amd64 netinst CD and could not get it to work at all usefully. *sigh* I've no idea how people ever manage to get unetbootin to work for them - documentation is non-existent. What I *do* have now is some information about the contents of the resulting USB stick, so I can add a checks in d-i for various files and trigger a warning something like "It looks like you're using an installation disk generated using unetbootin. This is regularly linked with difficult problem reports from Debian Installer users; if you have problems using this installation disk, please try your installation again *without* using unetbootin before reporting issues. See the installer documentation at ... for more information on how to create a USB installer disk." Stuart Prescott has opened a few more bugs with patches for our docs to help users with this; see #775814, #775821, #775824, #775826. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll -- 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/20150121154620.gx27...@einval.com
