Hi! I fully agree with Steve's stance. unetbootin is currently completely broken and I don't think it should actually be shipped with Jessie.
Just as of yesterday, a colleague of mine created a bootable USB flash drive with FreeDOS in order to flash the BIOS firmware of the new servers we got. While the FreeDOS actually booted, he ran into random crashes and couldn't copy the BIOS firmware and utilities onto the flash drive from Linux so that he could later run the BIOS utility from within FreeDOS. The files just weren't there. When he asked me for help, my first question was "Did you use unetbootin"? and after he acknowledged that, the first thing we did was to rewrite the image using dd which fixed all the issues he had. I would even argue that we should remove unetbootin from Debian altogether since I think it's rather a design problem and I think it's pretty much hopeless that upstream will fix the nearly 300 bugs in their bug tracker. After all, corrupted installation media could possibly result in serious data loss and I don't think it's acceptable to have such dangerously unreliable software in Debian. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
