Re: Bug#692309: installation-guide: 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection: Booting debian-installer from a USB stick
On Tue 06 Nov 2012 at 16:36:31 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Brian Potkin, le Tue 06 Nov 2012 13:05:25 +0000, a écrit :
> > Burn plpbt.iso to a CD.
>
> But then why not simply burn the Debian CD image on the CD?
In no particular order of importance:
1. The user has only one CD and no money to buy any more.
2. The user has no CDs or working CD-ROM but does have a floppy disk to
put plpbt.bin on.
3. The user has no CDs or floppy disks but has read the documentation
for Plop and can use it and GRUB on hard disk to boot from a USB
stick.
4. The user has a businesscard sized CD. Great for putting plpbt.iso on
and carrying round in a wallet, Not so great for a Debian Live ISO.
5. The user has only one CD. It is not re-writable. She wants to test
more than the Wheezy d-i alpha image. Her USB stick is re-writable.
6. The user has only one CD. He would like to try out the GNOME, KDE and
Xfce desktop environments. He is fortunate in having three USB sticks.
7. The user has fify CDs but resents having to throw them all away after
testing d-i weekly images for a year.
8. The user has many CDs and feels guilty seeing them all go to landfill
after a couple of years of testing Debian ISO images.
9. The user installs GRUB to her USB stick and adds ten Debian ISOs. A
CD boot iwith Plop can offer a GRUB menu of the ten ISOs to boot
from.
In two words. Versatilty. Choice.
If Plop doesn't work, the user has lost nothing. If it works, the user
gets to bypass BIOS deficiences and install Debian.
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