Hi László, _____ From: Thorsten Glaser <t.gla...@tarent.de> To: László Böszörményi (GCS) <g...@debian.org> Cc: 775...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:45:11 +0100 (CET)
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: > Also please note it's not a Debian specific tool. But it may exists in Right. I think users of Debian derivate which must not be named use it when they don’t manage to type “sudo dd”. I suggest to patch it upstream to recognise at the very least Debian ISOs, if not all isohybrid and manifold-boot ISOs, and just dd them over if found, instead of doing whatever it is otherwise doing. _____ I suggested mkusb to be used now, but I also want to say that I have used Unetbootin for years, and it is working well most of the time. It is very good when people want persistence, and when they want to use the pendrive for storage too (I don't, pendrives are temporary devices for me). But sometimes there are bugs, when a new distro or version is different in a way, that is not recognized by Unetbootin. This seems to be the case now with Debian Jessie. If you add a 'dd' cloning option, it would make Unetbootin even more useful. You are welcome to borrow whatever code and concepts you want from mkusb, it is FOSS :-) Best regards Nio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
