QA Test Proposal: install source test case, usb drive

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Tue Mar 23 22:11:25 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 07:42:22PM -0400, Christopher Beland wrote:
> We have some contradictory claims about what's possible and what's
> supported upstream:
> 
> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 14:44 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > As far as I know, this is not currently expected to work, nor is it
> > > tested.  If it worked at all in the past, it was an accident.
> > >
> > 
> > A quick Google search reveals there's a nice following of users[1] who 
> > have been using this method for a while. This is why I'd like to make it 
> > official. The livecd-iso-to-disc script has support for this already.
> > 
> > [1] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205596
> 
> On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 13:34 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> > You will have to fork the script for this, because the upstream
> > maintainer of the script does not want to support this officially. I
> > already asked for this a long time ago. Back then anaconda supported
> > to loop-mount iso images, which made it all very easy and useful,
> > but this has gone. :-(
> 
> Is there a bug or ticket which is tracking the recent instance of the
> request?

No, I asked on the mailing list.

> It does seem nice to have an officially supported command-line tool
> for writing ISOs to CD/DVD, though we have several good graphical ones
> mentioned in the official guide:
> 
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/en-US.html#sect-Burning_ISO_images_to_disc-Burning-Linux
> 
> I'm wondering if livecd-iso-to-disk isn't going to be that, is there
> another favorite utilty that Fedora could adopt?  I know "dd" now
> works for USB drives, but I assume not for CDs and DVDs?

You can used wodim for CDs and dvdrecord for DVDs afaik, but this is not
the feature I was writing about. I wrote about creating USB media with
the contents of the DVD installation media.

Regards
Till
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