[gcb]

agreed. while this task is not hard, the rest may not go as planned. recently i just moved back to ubuntu instead of debian out of lazyness. tried to copy a bunch of images via dd, unetbootin, whatever method... but the debian installer (be it the disk, netboot, etc) always died trying to look for a cd rom instead. after some dozen tries (20min+ each) i just gave up and got the ubuntu iso and installed. sucks no to have to disable a bunch of proprietary and binary blob stuff, but at least that i can manage --differently from fixing the installer.