On Sun, 22 May 2016 04:50:07 -0700 Geza Kovacs <geza0kov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi I'm the maintainer of unetbootin, I just stumbled upon this bug report, > sorry you have been having issues. The underlying issue appears to be that > some of Debian's ISO files violate the Joilet standard - the standard does > not permit filenames exceeding 64 characters in length, as you can see at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet_(file_system) . Hence any tool for > processing ISO files which follows the Joilet standard, like 7-zip (which > is used by unetbootin), will have undefined behavior when dealing with such > files (in the case of 7-zip it truncates the filenames to 64 characters). > The upstream report for 7-zip is at > https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/bugs/1055/ but unetbootin is not the > only tool dealing with ISO files that relies on 7-zip (or other tools that > expect Joilet-compliant ISO files), so a solution might be to just respect > the 64-character limit for filenames in ISO files.
FINALLY...a clear answer on the unetbootin problem in Debian Jessie. Earlier bug report comments are less than helpful because they do not point to a viable graphical replacement for unetbootin. While they do mention use of dd as a replacement this does not address the need for graphical or desktop-compatible solution. Real need is to either fix the unetbootin problem (make Debian conform to standards) or to provide an alternative graphical tool to make .iso bootable USB Pen-drive images. An alternative solution might be to restore ability of K3B to write to USB pen-drives. This also went away with Debian Jessie release.
