On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 08:59:33AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 14:24 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 12:49:07PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > Based on today's blocker review meeting discussion, and this email > > > thread [1] I'd like to propose making only Fedora Media Writer the > > > *officially supported* USB installation media creation tool, starting > > > with Fedora 26. > > > > > > First question: is FMW the same thing as liveusb-creator? In an > > up-to-date F25 machine, searching for "media", "fedora", and "writer" > > in the gnome search dialogue yields no results. A few simple searches > > live 'dnf search fedora-media-writer' and 'dnf search fmw' also yield > > nothing. How are people supposed to find this? > > It's 'mediawriter', if you have it installed, searching for 'media' in > GNOME Shell should definitely be showing it. Yep, once it's installed. Before installation, gnome shell shows "no results" for "mediawriter". OK, so the whole thing is very confusing. Google for "fedora media writer" returns here: 1. http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/04/26/fedora-media-writer-the-fastest-way-to-create-live-usb-boot-media/ which says "sudo dnf install liveusb-creator" 3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2016-04-19_Fedora_Media_Writer which says "sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --best install liveusb-creator" Positions 2. and 4. are about mediawriter, 5. is again about liveusb-creator, then a bunch is about mediawriter. Maybe it would be reasonable to add a big banner on pages 1. and 3. to use mediawriter instead. > > Second question: how do I run this: > > > > Clicking on the liveusbcreator icon gives me a polkit dialogue and a > > spinning cursor which disappears after a while with no futher effect. > > The liveusb-creator package still exists but is badly broken. I already > filed a bug suggesting mediawriter should obsolete it. OK, indeed, it seems to run nicely on F25. Unfortunately it still dumps core if it cannot connect to a display (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382990). Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
