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/Mak...
[4]
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/Mak...
[5]
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html-single/Installation_Gu...
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?
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