Re: UEFI install

["Jeremy T. Bouse" <jbouse@debian.org>]

On 23.04.2014 14:57, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Steve McIntyre
> > Sent: 04/23/14 10:25 PM
> > To: Corey Blair
> > Subject: Re: UEFI install
>
> > Gah, yet another person using unetbootin. It's responsible for a lot 
> > of problem reports we're seeing these days. It's totally unnecessary
> > unetbootin will not start the installer in the right way, and AFAIK 
> > won't do the right things with UEFI either.
>
> Well, I have to disagree with you.
>
> I have been using Unetbootin for the past two years to "burn" Linux
> distros such as Debian (Squeeze and Wheezy), Ubuntu (from versions 12
> to 13) and Linux Mint on to a USB flash/thumb drive and then using it
> to install on to my hard disk drive without even a single problem.

I've got 2 laptops I've recently installed with Debian 7.4 using a UEFI 
from a bootable USB. I found unetbootin was useless though I'd used it 
before in the past to make boot USB. In this instance I simply 'cp 
debian-7.4.iso /dev/sdX' where /dev/sdX was my USB drive. Seemed odd 
just doing a cp but it actually worked flawlessly and was what I found 
the release notes recommended. In the case of one of my laptops I then 
had to immediately upgrade to Jessie to get certain hardware working 
given the new hardware devices it had.