Hey folks! Wanted to send a heads-up that I've made some fairly significant changes to the wiki regarding writing Fedora to USB. I've done (yet another) revision of the main wiki instructions for writing USB sticks: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB since the Fedora Media Writer tool - the rewrite (of the rewrite?) of LiveUSB Creator - now looks to be working well in testing, and is available on all our target platforms, the page now heavily promotes it as the best tool to use in almost all cases. Some other methods have been entirely removed - FMW should be a better choice for Windows and macOS than the tools that were listed before. I retained sections for: * livecd-iso-to-disk, as it's now the only tool that supports non- destructive write and data persistence * gnome-disk-utility, for non-Fedora *nix without Flatpak support * dd, for non-Fedora *nix without Flatpak or GNOME and people who just like dd * unetbootin, because the section basically exists to explicitly state that we don't support it (maybe we should add a similar section for Rufus...) Please do tell me about any problems you note, or if you think I removed something wrongly, or anything. Note that as of right now the best version of mediawriter for F23 and F24 is in updates-testing, so I had the instructions to install it include `--enablerepo=updates- testing`; I'm expecting the updates will go stable soon and we can remove that. For validation testing folks, I have also revised the USB validation test cases. I really kinda hated the way the Installation matrix was set up with test names that didn't match the test case page names for no good reason, and also didn't think we really needed all the different test cases, so I've consolidated them into three consistently-named test cases with more result columns: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_USB_dd https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_USB_fmw https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_USB_litd The effect is pretty much the same as before - except that we now include the FMW test instead of the LiveUSB Creator test - we test all three methods for both BIOS and UEFI and for both live and DVD images, but it's just arranged a little differently (and, I hope, better). I combined the separate 'live' and 'dvd' versions of the dd and litd test cases (which were barely different at all) into single test cases, and consolidated common wording between all the test cases using templates. I've put this change live on the current Installation validation page - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_25_Branched_20160930.n.0_Installation again, please let me know of any problems you see with this change :) Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
