[Test-Announce] livecd-tools testing request

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Feb 28 17:37:36 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 23:59 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Also the bug where, if you write a DVD ISO to USB stick with l-i-t-d,
> > only the anaconda stuff gets written, not the packages - so the stick is
> > effectively just a boot.iso, you need another source of packages. That
> > one I didn't file yet, but it should be fixed.
> >
> That's interesting.  I guess I've always avoided it by copying the .iso image to 
> the USB drive as well so it just finds it there.  That's also handy because then 
> you have the full .iso image to share with others or create new USB installers. 
>   I wonder if this new change will now take up twice the space if I use this method.

Prior to the changes in F17, if you used livecd-iso-to-disk to write a
DVD image to USB, the packages also got written and were accessible to
the installer. You didn't have to copy anything manually. At least in my
testing.
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