Bug#744865: Add check and warning for unetbootin

2015-03-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Gah, I never followed up on this. Patch v2 with minor wording changes as suggested by Holger... It would be nice to get this in before release... diff --git a/debian/cdrom-detect.postinst b/debian/cdrom-detect.postinst index 3446a06..6bf2454 100755 --- a/debian/cdrom-detect.postinst +++ b/debian/

Bug#744865: Add check and warning for unetbootin

2015-01-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 09:18:49PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >Hi Steve, > >Regarding your unetbootin patch: >> +Template: cdrom-detect/unetbootin_detected >> +Type: note >> +# :sl2: >> +_Description: UNetbootin media detected >> + It appears that your installation disk was generated using >

Bug#744865: Add check and warning for unetbootin

2015-01-24 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi Steve, Regarding your unetbootin patch: > +Template: cdrom-detect/unetbootin_detected > +Type: note > +# :sl2: > +_Description: UNetbootin media detected > + It appears that your installation disk was generated using > + UNetbootin. UNetbootin is regul

Bug#744865: Add check and warning for unetbootin

2015-01-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: tag -1 +patch On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 03:46:20PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >So, some progress on this front. I've filed a bug against unetbootin >itself to ask for warnings "Don't use this for Debian CD images" >(#775689) and there has been some discussion there. > >I've now tried the

Bug#744865: Add check and warning for unetbootin

2015-01-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
So, some progress on this front. I've filed a bug against unetbootin itself to ask for warnings "Don't use this for Debian CD images" (#775689) and there has been some discussion there. I've now tried the current stable and unstable versions of unetbootin myself with the latest Jessie d-i RC1 amd6

Bug#744865: Add check and warning for unetbootin

2014-04-24 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 23 Apr 2014 at 15:37:56 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > ACK. I'm going to look into that lot again myself. Thanks. I may have gone over the top with a few things like reorganising some things on the page. If I were doing it again today I'd be inclined to pare it down somewhat. > In my expe

Bug#744865: Add check and warning for unetbootin

2014-04-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:42:51PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: >On Tue 15 Apr 2014 at 16:46:30 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> As suggested in #739767... >> >> unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many people to create >> USB-bootable installer images, but these days seems responsible for >>

Bug#744865: Add check and warning for unetbootin

2014-04-16 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 15 Apr 2014 at 16:46:30 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > As suggested in #739767... > > unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many people to create > USB-bootable installer images, but these days seems responsible for > lots of user problems and difficult-to-resolve bug reports. > > If f

Bug#744865: Add check and warning for unetbootin

2014-04-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i As suggested in #739767... unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many people to create USB-bootable installer images, but these days seems responsible for lots of user problems and difficult-to-resolve bug reports. If feasible, check to s