replacing the Startup Disk Creator

[Nio Wiklund]

Hi Shubham,

If it is OK with a live-only pendrive, Win32 Disk Imager is a very
reliable tool. Unetbootin works in Windows too.

Maybe the bad impression of Unetbootin depends on where you get it. The
version from the developer's PPA works, but the version in the Ubuntu
repositories lags behind.

Best regards
Nio

Den 2015-09-18 kl. 15:15, skrev Shubham Rao:
> What about media creation from Windows?
> 
> On Fri 18 Sep, 2015 6:37 pm NikTh <nikth76 at yandex.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 18/09/2015 02:34 μμ, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
>>>
>>> I disagree. The incredibly long list of Unetbootin bugs leads me to
>> believe it's
>>> in a worse state than Startup Disk Creator:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unetbootin/+bugs?orderby=-id&start=0
>>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unetbootin/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-id&start=0
>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=unetbootin
>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775689
>>
>>
>> I agree with your disagreement. I consider Unetbootin almost a
>> deprecated project. It's not in a good state as regards UEFI systems and
>> has more bugs than fixes.
>>
>>
>>> I have no objection to replacing Startup Disk Creator with something
>> better, but
>>> the replacement would need to at least adhere to the following criteria:
>>>
>>> 1- Support UEFI
>>> 2- Be easy to use (including user testing)
>>> 3- Use a modern secure design (backend service that does the minimum
>> privileged
>>> operations, frontend that supports multiple toolkits, communication over
>> dbus
>>> and policykit integration)
>>> 4- Support udisks for proper hardware integration
>>> 5- Be reliable
>>> 6- Be written in a language that is maintainable
>>> 7- Be of quality enough to pass a MIR (Main inclusion request)
>>> 8- Have developers who are willing to commit to supporting it in the
>> Ubuntu
>>> archive, and for the duration of the LTS releases
>>>
>>
>> I cannot remove or add anything to that list.
>> Completely agree.
>>
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