replacing the Startup Disk Creator

[Nio Wiklund]

Den 2015-09-17 kl. 16:35, skrev Marc Deslauriers:
> Hi!
> 
> On 2015-09-17 10:24 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Hi subscribers to the ubuntu-quality mailing list,
,,,

> Care to elaborate what the many bugs are? I use it every single day for testing
> security updates on real hardware and since bug 1279987 got fixed it's been
> working great for me.
> 
>>
...

> Ideally it would also have both gtk and kde frontends, like usb-creator
> currently has.
> 
> Marc.

Hi Marc,

Elaborating on bugs and strange behaviour:

kansasnoob:

1. Aside from SDC being badly borked one of the most annoying design
flaws has always been the 10 minute timeout for installing the
bootloader. I'm sure I'm not the only one that multi-tasks constantly,
and not just at the desk. Watching and waiting for SDC to ask if you
want to install the bootloader is about like watching paint dry
............... but if you get distracted for more than 10 minutes after
SDC asks about bootloader installation you have to start all over again

2. Bug numbers

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1325801

But the proposed "fix" resulted in this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1446646

My final comment on that bug was here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1325801/comments/146

S-D-C is borked - it's useless to create live USB's of either older or
newer versions of Ubuntu than the version you're running S-D-C on. And
the proposed fix that made it into Vivid and got backported into Utopic
resulted in S-D-C being able to only produce live USB's of the same
architecture.

mc4man:

s-d-c worked ok here on 14.04.1 but fails now on installing bootloader
with 14.04.2/3. s-d-c does currently work in 15.10 (trying to create
14.04.3 image)

sudodus - alias me, Nio:

There is also a bug that makes it impossible to 'erase a disk'. I don't
know if it has a bug number, but it is there at least in some of the
current versions.

You see, there are too many bugs, that minor bug like the 'erase a disk'
was not even reported. Once we thought it would be squashed when a bug
was being debugged, but it turned out to be independent of that bug, and
I don't know of any bug report directed against it.

-o-

Concerning front-ends, they can be more or less independent of gtk and kde.

mkusb uses bash + zenity + pv, which are available without importing
heavy stacks of gtk or kde packages.

Disks belongs to gnome, I don't know if there is any corresponding
built-in cloning tool in kde (not counting cp and dd).

I don't know about Unetbootin and Multisystem and the other tools, how
many packages they will bring. But we can find out.

Unetbootin has versions for Windows and Mac OS too, which is an advantage.

Best regards
Nio