Comment 9 for bug 372461

I whole heartedly agree. Using an .img file is madness!

I realize the target for the distro is USB sticks, but why is it a problem to use an .iso file for this?

I've had to help several people figure out how to burn UNR to a CD because they couldn't figure out how to put an .img file on a USB stick and I don't blame them.

Let me summarize my recent experience in trying to get UNR on my laptop:
* The default USB writing app in Ubuntu (administration->create a USB startup disk) does NOT support .img files.
* The default CD writing app Brasero does NOT support .img files.
* The help page (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromImgFiles) recommends something called ImageWriter, I don't know where to find this thing and I shouldn't have to.
* More importantly, the suggested Windows app (Win32 Disk Imager) is a pre-alpha POS that fails with error 8 (no further info) on every computer I've tried. The alternative is a Windows commandline tool from Russia with no discernible connection to Ubuntu, the instructions are in Russian, and some forums warn that it'll corrupt the images.

Alternatively, I've just tested six other netbook distros (Puppy Linux, Easy Peasy, Xubuntu, Cruncheee, Debian EEE, eeebuntu) on a USB stick without any issues at all using Unetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) which is cross-platform and just works.

In my experience there is no solid cross-platform GUI tool available that makes it easy to handle .img files.
And I don't mind using commandline tools like 'dd' on Linux, but forcing me to use them on Windows is just evil.