usb-creator

[Evan Dandrea]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Dougie Richardson
<dougierichardson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Just out of interest, why is Canonical promoting the use of another
> tool to create USB boot disks?
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Mobile/HowTo/ImageWriting
>
> From looking at it, it seems to be wrapper over dd.

Indeed, and that's really all it is.  The overlap between the two tools has
been brought up recently within Canonical, and my impression is that we'll
absorb the functionality of writing .img files to usb disks in usb-creator and
then obsolete Image Writer.  I already have some code for this in my local
branch of usb-creator as it was requested by the head of the Mobile Team
earlier in this cycle, I'm assuming for this purpose.

Do note that this is just my impression and is not an official statement from
Canonical on the matter.