Source: installation-guide Severity: important Almost all of section 4.3 (Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting) needs to go away. We should *not* be telling most users about manually formatting media, copying installer files, etc.
My strong preference would be to simply remove *everything* after the text "Simply writing the installation image to USB like this should work fine for most users." The rest of the text here is massively overblown for anybody except developers, and is causing confusion. If anybody *does* want to keep the rest of the text, please put it in an appendix called "extra USB options that nobody needs" or similar. We should also remove mentions of the mini.iso in the "normal users" section - it's totally not a sensible option for most people to ever be trying to use it here. We should definitely also kill section 4.4.2: Loadlin is *dead* - *nobody* has DOS any more. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
