Hi Harry, > Thank you for the input and your offer: > Yes I am interested, and please do.
you may have seen my post in the other thread, I think I CC-ed you: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/05/msg00443.html Brian wrote: > [...] I do not consider loopback mode (the > subject of the mail I replied to) to offer any advantage over this > method or the one described above. Well, I see a number of advantages, of course those may not apply to everybody's use cases. 1. You are not restricted to devote the whole device, just to i.e. the Debian installer. If you have, say (like me), an 8GB flash drive, you can have, depending on the size, up to 10 different images to boot. For example, I like to try out different distros and as part of my job as a sysadmin, I need several installers ready to go. I can use one single device for live systems and all kinds of stuff, comfortably selectable from the grub menu. 2. You can have several partitions on your boot device, and do not need to format or erase anything. For example, if you just have a USB hard drive handy atm, using the dd or cat > /dev/sdb method, you would have to backup all your stuff on that drive, need enough space on another hd and so on. 3. Works with non-hybrid isos Of course it may be confusing or hard for an inexperienced user to manually mount stuff, but those would most likely use Ubuntu or a derivative, where this works out of the box (at least in the desktop edition) Best, Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1368099873.3651.51.camel@xpsubuntu
