So I can just do a file copy in Windows of the .iso to the thumb drive? Not actually extracting the iso image? I will try that later tonite, but also seems odd to me that it would work.
________________________________ From: Jeremy T. Bouse <jbo...@debian.org> To: Theodore Alcapotaxis <theota...@mail.com> Cc: Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com>; Corey Blair <cblair...@yahoo.com>; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 12:07 Subject: Re: UEFI install On 23.04.2014 14:57, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Steve McIntyre >> Sent: 04/23/14 10:25 PM >> To: Corey Blair >> Subject: Re: UEFI install > >> Gah, yet another person using unetbootin. It's responsible for a lot >> of problem reports we're seeing these days. It's totally unnecessary >> unetbootin will not start the installer in the right way, and AFAIK >> won't do the right things with UEFI either. > > Well, I have to disagree with you. > > I have been using Unetbootin for the past two years to "burn" Linux > distros such as Debian (Squeeze and Wheezy), Ubuntu (from versions 12 > to 13) and Linux Mint on to a USB flash/thumb drive and then using it > to install on to my hard disk drive without even a single problem. I've got 2 laptops I've recently installed with Debian 7.4 using a UEFI from a bootable USB. I found unetbootin was useless though I'd used it before in the past to make boot USB. In this instance I simply 'cp debian-7.4.iso /dev/sdX' where /dev/sdX was my USB drive. Seemed odd just doing a cp but it actually worked flawlessly and was what I found the release notes recommended. In the case of one of my laptops I then had to immediately upgrade to Jessie to get certain hardware working given the new hardware devices it had.
