Support for the Ubuntu Netbook Remix .img image-files

[Stinger]

Binary package hint: usb-creator

This is a wish for a future release :-)

[Christopher Griffiths (chris)]

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better. Since what you submitted is not really a bug, or a problem, but rather an idea to improve Ubuntu, you are invited to post your idea in Ubuntu Brainstorm at http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ where it can be discussed, voted by the community and reviewed by developers. Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion!

Chris.

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

i request this to be reopended as a wishlist bug.
this is somewhere in the middle between a bug and an idea how to improve.

the format of the source image should not matter (as long as it is something reasonable) and as netbook remix ships in img-format it should be supported!

[Stinger (e-mindahl)]

Thanks I added the idea to the brainstorm.

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19478/

[Stinger (e-mindahl)]

Dear Christopher Swift we got a catch 22 situation here !

cheesehead from the Ubuntu brainstorm said this is a bug !

But you told me it was not and should be added as an idea to the brainstom ??

Please coordinate with cheesehead from the brainstorm and tell me what to do..

[Stinger (e-mindahl)]

I second Michaels oppinion.

And thinking about it , the reason I filed the bugreport was that I could not understand why Ubuntu's own Usb-Creator didn't support the UNR .img format.
A Usb-Creator tool that couldn't create an Usb-stick from the distributions own image files ??
That must be some kinda bug or at least a wish for improvement in the Usb-Creator.

To get these UNR images on a stick Ubuntu choses a different tool, the Ubuntu Image writer, wich as far as I know only supports .img image files.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromImgFiles#Ubuntu

I think Ubuntu users only need one tool to write an image to an Usb-stick and at the moment I think Usb-Creator is the best solution.
Why not merge these tools into one ?

Please reopen this Bug !

Removed " Duplicate of bug 347678 " as requested by Michael.

[Stinger (e-mindahl)]

I suggested merge between Ubuntu Image-Write and Ubuntu Usb-Creator as wishlist here:

bug 369722 .

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

tentatively reopened

[Omegamormegil (omegamormegil)]

.img format will be supported by usb-creator by Karmic, and the functionality will probably be backported to Jaunty. So, it's in the works.

Source: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-April/028185.html

[Evan (ev)]

This was fixed in Karmic. Writing disk images is now supported.