Bug#673715: [installation-guide] boot.img now creates a 1 GB filesystem, no longer 256 MB
Package: installation-guide
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: 666090@bugs.debian.org
According to 4.3.1. Copying the files — the easy way:
Note that, although convenient, this method does have one major
disadvantage: the logical size of the device will be limited to 256
MB, even if the capacity of the USB stick is larger.
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html
This is no longer correct with the work done on #666090. boot.img is now
a 1 GB filesystem. This also makes the following sentence wrong:
A second disadvantage is that you cannot copy a full CD image onto the
USB stick, but only the smaller businesscard or netinst CD images.
The enlargement of boot.img now allows putting CD 1 on the stick :-)
One unfortunate consequence which I didn't foresee, though, is that
writing boot.img to the key is now significantly longer (at least with
my key/laptop) :-(
Unused space is written with blank.
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