On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:17:13PM -0400, James Laska wrote: > Greetings folks, > > Based on an issue discovered during Fedora 14 Beta testing, the Fedora > QA team is currently discussing how best to address gaps in our test > matrix [1]. The specific bug [2] potentially concerns using the > livecd-iso-to-disk command to write ISO media other than the Live image > to a USB drive. > > From looking at the Fedora 13 installation guide, it recommends using > the Live.iso and ... > * liveusb-creator on Windows [3] > * liveusb-creator, livecd-iso-to-disk or dd on Linux [4] > > Later in the guide, it recommends using the boot.iso and ... > * livecd-iso-to-disk on Linux [5] > > Does anyone know why that last bullet recommends using the boot.iso > instead of the Live.iso? I'm trying to reconcile what is documented and > what is supported by the livecd-tools package. This mail is intended to > cover the documentation. > > Thanks, > James > > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/134 > [2] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/627789 > [3] > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media.html#Making_USB_Media-Windows > [4] > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media-UNIX_Linux.html > [5] > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#sect-New_Users-Alternative_Boot_Methods >From what I can tell, you're right James -- this seems like a conflict in the documentation. If one reads the section as a new user, the instructions for obtaining and making either CD/DVD or USB media have already been covered in the chapter for [3] and [4] before one ever reaches [5]. In cases where the user can't boot from a CD/DVD but wanted to use an alternative installation method, I thought the 'dd' tool was used with the 'boot.iso' minimal boot image to make a USB device, rather than 'livecd-iso-to-disk'. Can anyone confirm this? Is applying livecd-iso-to-disk to images *other* than our Live images really supported? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
