Bug#724931: Status of this bug for jessie?
Hi all,
I really don't want to be pushy (I appreciate that you all spend your
free time making Debian a better distribution) but am just curious about
the chances to get all the bits and pieces mentioned in this bug report
merged before Jessie gets frozen (so that one can take an official
Debian Jessie netinst ISO and drop it onto a loopback-boot enabled USB
drive next to installers for Ubuntu and other Linux distros that already
support it, and it will "just work").
I guess I am not the only person who likes to have one USB drive with
all their Linux install and live media present all the time, and
currently this means for me that whenever a new d-i comes out (that I
want to use), I have to collect patches from bug reports and build my
own d-i (and test it on a VM to avoid regressions) so that I can
loopback boot it from my USB drive.
As this means a considerable amount of effort (multiplied by the number
of people who are doing this all for themselves), if the odds are bad to
get it into official Jessie installers, perhaps we (who are regularly or
occasionally monitoring this bug) can coordinate our efforts and provide
an unofficial Debian Jessie netinstaller image somewhere (no idea about
how hosting stuff works within the Debian project, but for me even some
prebuilt and tested .iso on a Dropbox or similar file hoster would be
good enough - YMMV).
Just my 2 cents,
Michael
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