On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 2:20 PM Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote:
> timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I'm trying to locate UNetBootin for debian 11.4. I found one download PPA > >for Ubuntu Kinetic. Since UNetBootin is not in the repos is there an > >alternative application to make bootable media on Debian 11. > > As Andy said, simply use "dd" or "cp" to copy the media to the raw > device. All our bootable amd64, i386 and arm64 media are so-called > "isohybrid" media and will work that way. > > Please do yourself a favour and *don't* use unetbootin. We found it to > be a massive cause of trouble in the debian installer team. Lots of > our users were using it, and it was doing broken things to our > installation images that caused lots of bug reports. We *massively* > disrecommend its use. > Thanks for the info, I actually downloaded the binary for UNetBootin and got it to work. I know DD works fine but how can you set a persistent installation with it so you can update the live image install additional packages etc? > -- > Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. > st...@einval.com > "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could > ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike > Andrews > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
