Hey Shirish! On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:22:20PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > >As I was on MS-Windows had to resort to using a variety of softwares >trying out rufus and other softwares. For some reason, other than >unetbootin none of the others worked. But this was also only limited >to the alpha build, the others just didn't even copy either using >rufus or using unetbootin. Dunno the reason for that. Most of the logs >were cryptic in nature so couldn't come to any specific result. The >only thing I was able to figure out that somehow the boot loader was >corrupted during the copy.
:-( Windows really does make it hard to talk to raw devices... >I was also stuck by the warning debian usb stick told me while I was >trying to install saying unetbootin is not a good tool to make a usb >stick. Perhaps a hyperlink would have been better than just saying >its in installation instructions. > >While installing the alpha build, two things became apparent, one >while there is support for https protocol, there doesn't seem to be >any mirrors which support that or I couldn't find them and I tried a >few, although finding https mirrors should perhaps be more automated, >dunno. https://deb.debian.org/debian should work, I'd hope. It's a sensible default that we're trying to bake into various places. >Lastly, would it be possible to have a mate-desktop CD apart from the >xfce one. While choice of desktop environment is certainly a personal >choice, I feel it's a good lightweight yet at the same time fully >functional desktop environment. It isn't bloated as GNOME has become >but still tries to be true to the gtk+ philosophy. I *really* don't want to go down the route of multiple CD variants again. The xfce CD was already a concession here... >Also is buster alpha 3 on the horizon anywhere or what constraints or >issues that need to be resolved before an alpha 3 can be a reality ? We're overdue a buster alpha 3, yes. No real issues that I'm aware of, just lack of people with time to do it so far. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty