QA Test Proposal: install source test case, usb drive

James Laska jlaska at redhat.com
Fri Mar 19 19:18:32 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 11:52 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 12:03 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> > James Laska wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Yes, booting from the USB stick.
> > 
> > >
> > > How do you normally prepare you USB media for install?
> > 
> > # livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso /dev/usbstick
> > 
> > Then I can use the /dev/usbstick device on any computer that can boot 
> > from USB (anything in the past 10 years). This method is what has 
> > stopped working in F13.
> 
> It works fine for me, at least it did with Alpha (last point at which I
> tested). Quite a lot of the 'live image' testing we do is actually done
> with USB sticks, it's just easier that way.
> 
> Installing from a live image written to a USB stick is certainly
> expected to work, if you're having trouble with that please do file a
> bug.

In this case, Michael is testing by writing the DVD iso to a USB device
using livecd-iso-to-disk.  I've done this procedure with a boot.iso many
times in the past.  I'll try with a DVD shortly.

Thanks,
James
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