QA Test Proposal: install source test case, usb drive

[James Laska]

Greetings Michael,

On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 11:38 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> I notice there are several test cases for installation sources[1], but 
> the one I use is not listed.
> 
> Proposal: InstallSourceUSBDrive
> 
> A USB thumb drive is extremely portable, fast, and reusable. Installing 
> from a USB drive can be easily 10 times quicker than a DVD or CD and you 
> can use as many Fedora images as you like instead of throwing away a DVD 
> when you are done.
> 
> In F13, I am not able to use my USB drives to install from. Anaconda 
> complains that it is unable to find my install media when it gets to the 
> point it looks for it. Before I went and made a bug report or pursued my 
> issue further, I'd like to see if anyone else sees this installation 
> source as a supported one.

Would this include booting from the USB media, or just booting the
installer using other available methods, and choosing your USB drive as
an HDISO install?

How do you normally prepare you USB media for install?

Thanks,
James

> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Installation_Source


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/attachments/20100319/045d4627/attachment.bin