the tragedy of Fedora Live USB conversion and what we can do about it

[Thomas C.Gilliard]

On 08/01/2014 05:21 AM, Kamil Paral wrote:
>> What about offering liveusb-creator at the first place instead of ISO?
> Actually, this might be a great idea. Not "instead", but if we provided two buttons instead of one:
>
> [Download DVD image]  [Download USB installer]
>
> people would immediately saw the difference. If they were after USB installation media, they wouldn't download a DVD image and then wonder what to do with it (as they do now), no, they would immediately click the second button. Our USB installer is already capable of both reusing an existing image and downloading a fresh one, so this goes well hand in hand. And the page serving you the file could be tailored to the particular method, so DVD download would show you basic DVD burning instructions, while USB installer download would show you basic USB conversion instructions.
>
> Mairin, I guess you're the best person to talk about fp.o design, what do you think? (Please read the start of this thread). Thanks.
Previous post:
"A  problem is that the .iso versions offered for download in the 
liveusb-creator  GUI always seem to lag behind."

more testing:

I just tested on Yoga Pro 2 running native resolution and Widows 8.1 OS 
and the liveusb-creator is postage stamp size on the screen.
It needs to be run in compatability mode as an administrator to work.
Most of the functions appear to work but using the update button I got 
Soas  f17 x86_64   and did not download in the 25 minutes I tested it.
I tested on a second USB that was written previously with fedora live 
with dd. It was not writable. the terminal command liveusb-creator 
--reset-mbr did not run in Windows terminal.(It worked in linux gparted 
with create new partition table and format fat32 label LIVE boot flag.) 
I could then use the windows 8.1 liveusb-creator to write an existing 
soas.iso downloaded earlier in windows firefox.

In short there are a number of things that need to fixed in the windows 
version of liveusb.creator before offering it on the fedora download 
options.
1-) detect screen resolution and properly display GUI
2-) run in compatability mode (run as administrator)
3-) run as liveusb-creator --reset-mbr by default  (this can be done in 
linux by editing the icon command)
4-)Fix the Download button on the GUI to work and be up to date.