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Bug#624449: installation-reports: netinst amd64-i386 iso does install i386 instead of amd64



Sebastian Bremicker wrote:
> apparently no. I'm sorry, I did not know that it was a bootmenu choice,
> I presumed some d-i magic would detect my architecture. unetbootin
> modifies the boot menu and I seem to have fallen for this in spite of
> being a longstanding debian user and a memory of having read about this
> fact somwere in the wiki or installer faq before. ;)

The d-i magic that detects your architecture is isolinux, which has
probably been avoided by whatever magic unetbootin does (how exactly 
it works has never been clear to me).

Happily, there is no need to use unetbootin now, as all Debian
ISOs can be written directly to USB sticks.

-- 
see shy jo

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