After today's InstallFest I have been looking at UNetbootin - Universal Netboot Installer. It is intended to convert bootable ISO images into bootable USB images. Reading about it on Sourceforge.net I find something that is rather disturbing.
<http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/> - - - - - - - - FAQs How does UNetbootin work, and what does it do? UNetbootin uses a Windows or Linux-based installer to install a small modification to the bootloader (bootmgr and bcdedit on Vista, grldr and boot.ini for NT-based systems, grub.exe and config.sys for Win9x, grub on Linux, or syslinux when installing to a USB drive), uses the bootloader to boot the desired distribution's installer or to load the system utility, no CD required. After the distribution has been installed, or once done using the system utility, the modification to the bootloader is then undone. - - - - - - - - What is this "small modification" to the bootloader, and why is the program doing it to my system? Or is it referring to the bootloader that would be installed by the ISO image? I can't tell what it's doing, after a quick browse through the sources. <http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/unetbootin-source-latest.zip> I don't particularly trust it, and would run it only on a sacrificial computer, or within an emulator. Comments welcome. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
