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Bug#692309: installation-guide: 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection: Booting debian-installer from a USB stick



Hi,

Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the patches. But, FWIW, I'm opposed to advising users to go "on the 
> internet" download a non-trusted (as in "there is no trust path to/from 
> Debian") blob to put on their machines. I think we should only do it if that  
> "plop" can be considered as part of Debian (as in "packaged", see e.g. win32-
> loader or loadlin ).

But we already mention Windows tools in the guide, which are also not 
part of Debian, for example for partitioning.
I would vote for including plop too.

Holger

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