QA Test Proposal: install source test case, usb drive
Adam Williamson
awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Mar 19 19:39:32 UTC 2010
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 14:10 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'm not using a live image. This is the main confusion point that I see
> people having. I am using a DVD install ISO and placing it on a USB drive.
>
> Installing from a live image does work just fine - DVD ISO does not.
Oh. I don't know if we support that, certainly using the
livecd-iso-to-disk script (whose name sort of indicates what it's meant
for). I believe there's been a bug report where an anaconda dev gave a
working procedure. Can't quite recall the details at present.
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Adam Williamson
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