I was thinking about wether this would be useful too. If I remember I didn't do 
this with the original guide because unetbootin has more than one way of doing 
things, which may just confuse users. But if they did include Devuan as a 
target that might solve the issue, depending what people think on using 
unetbootin.

Cheers,

chillfan


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On Tuesday, January 1, 2019 9:25 PM, info at smallinnovations dot nl 
<i...@smallinnovations.nl> wrote:

> On 01-01-19 22:04, chillfan--- via Dng wrote:
> 

> > Validating the images is optional but I think it's useful to tell people 
> > how this is done for those that want it. That part could easily be 
> > rewritten to be optional and a recommendation only. That's my suggestion 
> > for this anyway. So something like:
> > Installation images distributed by Devuan are signed so that they can be 
> > verified as coming from Devuan. As an optional step you can verify images 
> > to let you know they have not been altered prior to you receiving them.
> > My preference would be for us not to repeat ourselves on the website in 
> > favour of simplicity, and instead just link to what we need in the intro.
> > About dd, I think that should be mentioned because otherwise users will 
> > look elsewhere and when it doesn't work they'll think our images are broken 
> > (this issue has come up before). So for users convenience and to be sure 
> > they are using dd correctly, we should provide those instructions.
> > Whilst we will have more information and documentation for new users, I 
> > don't think we should write Windows guides. I think that would lead us more 
> > in the direction of ubuntu and others who adopted systemd.
> > Cheers,
> > chillfan
> > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > On Tuesday, January 1, 2019 7:51 PM, goli...@dyne.org wrote:
> 

> We do not have to write specific Windows guides to mention Unetbootin
> which will work for Linux, Windows and Mac.
> 

> Of course we will have to tell the authors of Unetbootin to add Devuan
> to the pre-selected distros to make it complete.
> 

> Grtz.
> 

> Nick

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