[Fedora QA] #260: Cover USB-written images better in installation validation testing

[Fedora QA]

#260: Cover USB-written images better in installation validation testing
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 Reporter:  adamwill  |       Owner:           
     Type:  task      |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  major     |   Milestone:  Fedora 17
Component:  Wiki      |     Version:           
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 It became clear in the Fedora 16 cycle that use of Fedora images (both
 live and non-live) written to USB sticks is now extensive, and our current
 installation validation tests don't really test this method very
 comprehensively. We should extend the installation validation matrix to
 cover at least boot and installation in the following situations:

  * Live image written to USB stick using livecd-iso-to-disk
  * Live image written to USB stick using liveusb-creator
  * Live image written to USB stick using dd
  * Non-live image written to USB stick using livecd-iso-to-disk
  * Non-live image written to USB stick using dd

 We may want to consider different l-i-t-d parameters also (especially the
 use or non-use of --format could be significant). We could also cover use
 of unetbootin as an _informational_ (non-blocking) test, but I'm not super
 sure about that.

 Part of this ticket is deciding on the best way to represent this -
 whether it's by simply creating new test cases and adding them into the
 matrix, or somehow re-rendering the matrix to cover these cases as
 'variants' of existing test cases, or some other method.

 The changes from this ticket and https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-
 qa/ticket/256 should be co-ordinated (possibly handled by the same person
 or group) as they both involve similar questions of how to revise the
 matrix to cover more situations.

 This should be completed by Fedora 17 Alpha TC1.

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