Bug#739767: marked as done (The partitioning phase of the installer crashes when using usb as installation medium)

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:12:17AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
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>Mark Nuyts <marknuyts@gmail.com> (2014-02-22):
>> 
>> I used the nightly build of the Jessy i386 mini.iso (22-Feb-2014
>> 00:16) to install to an old laptop.
>> 
>> I wrote the mini.iso to a usb-stick using unetbootin.
>
>last I checked, unetbootin was causing endless issues (at least when I
>tried to use it to see how it went), and I'm afraid we're not going to
>even try and support it.

I have similar feelings here. If feasible, a check and big warning to
say "You appear to have used netbootin. Expect problems." or similar
could be quite useful I think.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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