Victor Chew wrote:
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Curious... Is it possible maybe in the future to create a "bare bones/lite version" if you will, UBCD that doesn't include pmagic, so if people wanted to add a more up to date system OS such as system rescue cd themselves, they could, without increasing the size of the ending ISO or worrying about out dated software/OS and having to remove it? Maybe this is an unnecessary request...
I will prefer not to go down that route again unless the reasons are extremely compelling. More things for me to get wrong managing two ISO images for each release, but I think it's relatively easy for ppl for rip out PM and put in their own distro given how things are cleanly partitioned within UBCD.I understand what you wouldn't want to.
Explorer09 wrote:
Hey everyone. Look at the text at the new Parted Magic download page
https://partedmagic.com/downloads
Perhaps we could add this warning on the UBCD homepage, until we have a replacement for Parted Magic.
https://partedmagic.com/downloads
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WARNING! A few sites on the internet are offering a file called pmagic_2013_08_01.iso for free download. This version was released with a very destructive USB corruption bug in the Linux kernel. We removed this file from our official mirrors to minimize the damage and quickly released version 2013_08_10 to replace it. The 2013_08_01 version also included a bug in the OLD Secure Erase GUI that would allow a user to erase an ATA disk through a USB interface. In some cases it would brick the expensive USB device. The OLD GUI would also set the secure erase password to NULL by default and using the disk on a Lenovo BIOS is not possible because a password cannot be entered. Version 2013_09_26 does not contain these flaws and is completely safe to use. Sorry for any inconvenience or loss suffered by using this unofficial/unsupported FREE pmagic_2013_08_01.iso. You have been warned.
Perhaps we could add this warning on the UBCD homepage, until we have a replacement for Parted Magic.
Hmm, not sure about that, as we don't provide a warranty for included software...I would mention an major issue and link to it.