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



Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2014-03-11):
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:12:17AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> >
> >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.

Christian will kill us for the extra l10n material but that looks like a
nice idea to me. Feel free to open a wishlist bug report to keep track
of this.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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