Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

On Sun, 22 May 2016 04:50:07 -0700 Geza Kovacs 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

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

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

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:06:18 + Steve McIntyre wrote: > Source: unetbootin > Severity: serious > Tags: d-i > Justification: wasting massive amounts of developer and user time > > I've already added one wishlist bug for d-i to add code to detect > unetbootin usage

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images - DD doesn't work for me

DD doesn't work for me. It never has on linux. It creates a nonbootable brick. As a matter of fact, no tool on the linux platform used to create bootable usb drives based on an ISO image has ever worked for me. Strangely enough, unetbootin, although the bootable usb it creates is buggy, actually

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I think you missed the part where I was talking about non-Debian images. It clearly breaks non-Debian images as well, for example It needs a list of images it can operate on, and refuse on all others, then. FreeDOS. Just look at the bug

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I fully agree with Steve's stance. unetbootin is currently completely broken and I don't think it should actually be shipped with Jessie. Shipping it with jessie is irrelevant to using it for Debian images. After all, corrupted

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

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.

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

On 02/17/2015 11:11 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Completely disagree: unetbootin is the tool of choice to create bootable images for a variety of distributions, so shipping it with Debian is correct, for those distributions. Just that the software should not be used for creating broken *Debian*

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

Hi! Can you give me pointers where those bugreports exist? Do you have first hand experience that it's not working correctly? I made netboot images onto my USB sticks and they worked. This exchange is sadly pretty common when it comes to unetbootin and we see this frequently in #debian.

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 07:40:11PM +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: Control: tag -1 moreinfo Hi Steve, Hi! USB-bootable installer images, but these days seems responsible for lots of user problems and difficult-to-resolve bug reports. Using it for Debian CD images creates USB images

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

On Sun, 18 Jan 2015, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: Also please note it's not a Debian specific tool. But it may exists in Right. I think users of Debian derivate which must not be named use it when they don’t manage to type “sudo dd”. I suggest to patch it upstream to recognise at the very

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Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

Control: tag -1 moreinfo Hi Steve, On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: Source: unetbootin Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: wasting massive amounts of developer and user time I've already added one wishlist bug for d-i to add code to detect

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

Source: unetbootin Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: wasting massive amounts of developer and user time I've already added one wishlist bug for d-i to add code to detect unetbootin usage and complain about it, but I've not got there yet. unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many