Documentation error.

Eric Christensen eric at christensenplace.us
Tue Jun 30 02:23:32 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 21:18 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> I was reading the install instructions for Fedora 11 on the Wiki and
> ran into an error.
> 
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/ch03s04.html#d0e1197
> 
> USB pen drive
>     If you cannot boot from the DVD/CD-ROM drive, but you can boot
> using a USB device, such as a USB pen drive, the following
> alternative boot method is available:
>     To boot using a USB pen drive, use the dd command to copy the
> diskboot.img image file from the /images/ directory on the DVD or
> CD-ROM #1. For example:
> 
>     dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda
> 
>     Your BIOS must support booting from a USB device in order for
> this boot method to work.
> 
> The problem is that the file diskboot.img isn't there. (It wasn't in
> Fedora 10 either.) The README in the /images/ directory talks about
> it as well.
> 
> Mikkel

Mikkel,
Thanks for the information.  Could you please submit a bug request for
this, please?  You can find information on filing a bug in the
"feedback" section[1] of the Install Guide.

[1]
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/pr01s02.html


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