replacing the Startup Disk Creator

[Hendrik Knackstedt]

I use SDC in a regular Basis and have not had any issues when creating a bootable USB drive from an Ubuntu ISO in any of the last 3 Ubuntu releases.

When looking at the bug list most bugs are for Ubuntu releases that are not supported anymore or the bugs are not even related to SDC. This list should definitely be cleaned up before a decision is made. Maybe it comes down to 30 bugs or less.

Certainly current bugs should have a detailed bug report so developers can fix them.

Unetbootin is a good tool but also has bugs and drawbacks.

Regards
Hendrik

Am 17. September 2015 17:26:21 MESZ, schrieb Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com>:
>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
>
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