On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 11:40 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> 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? > > > No, it's a rewrite. But there is confusion about handling obsoleting > LUC or keeping it around somehow because it does support persistence. > The last I heard the consensus was to obsolete it. Plus I think it's > kinda broken at the moment, so how to support multiple writers? It's > difficult enough as it is, which is the point of this thread. > > > > 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? > > > So long as it passes QA testing, which it has so far, the plan is for > it to be the primary downloadable. Instead of getting an ISO, you get > a platform specific copy of Fedora Media Writer. The tool downloads > the Fedora image of choice, checks the hash, and writes it to a stick. > > But yeah finding the *current* version right now is a bit difficult. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_USB_fmw suggests: > > sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --best install mediawriter The --enablerepo=updates-testing should now only be necessary for F23, a good build is stable for F24 and F25. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
