Bug#744865: Add check and warning for unetbootin
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:42:51PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
>On Tue 15 Apr 2014 at 16:46:30 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>> As suggested in #739767...
>>
>> unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many people to create
>> USB-bootable installer images, but these days seems responsible for
>> lots of user problems and difficult-to-resolve bug reports.
>>
>> If feasible, check to see if we were booted from unetbootin media. If
>> so, print a big warning to the user that unetbootin is potentially
>> problematic and not supported. (Maybe) let them continue after
>> acknowledging the warning anyway(?), but be sure to log the warning in
>> the syslog for the benefit of d-i developers.
>
>I'm not particularly fond myself of advocating unetbootin to put an
>image on a USB stick but wouldn't something in the CD FAQ also be
>helpful. For example:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2012/08/msg00053.html
>
>and
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2012/08/msg00053.html
>
>Writing to a CD gets some prominence, in spite of the defects it
>contains:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2012/09/msg00049.html
>
>All of which need reviewing. And all of which may be totally useless :).
ACK. I'm going to look into that lot again myself.
>I don't think we should be supporting anything which is not in the
>Installation Guide. Picking out one program for Debian's approbation
>seems a little extreme.
In my experience it's far and away the most common (external) cause of
problems in the installer. I've just responded personally to yet
another user who seems to have bitten by it.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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