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Bug#673715: marked as done ([installation-guide] boot.img now creates a 1 GB filesystem, no longer 256 MB)

Your message dated Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:09:37 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #673715,
regarding [installation-guide] boot.img now creates a 1 GB filesystem, no longer 256 MB
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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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Hi,

Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun 24 Aug 2014 at 19:24:48 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > 
> > > +USB stick is large enough &mdash; you have the option of copying any
> > > +ISO image, even a DVD image to it.
> > 
> > Could you tolerate an extra comma?
> 
> Sure!
> 
> >    +USB stick is large enough &mdash; you have the option of copying any
> >    +ISO image, even a DVD image, to it.

Committed.

Closing this bug.



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Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>

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