| Fedora Test Days | |
|---|---|
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| live-usbtools | |
| Date | <<04-19-2012>> |
| Time | all day |
| Website | QA/Fedora_17_test_days |
| IRC | #fedora-test-day (webirc) |
| Mailing list | test |
If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.
What to test?
Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on liveusb-tools and creating a live usb image via liveusb-tools on fedora 17 and windows liveusb-creator.
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
- Development - FranciscoD (FranciscoD)
- Quality Assurance - vicodan (vicodan)
Prerequisite for Test Day
List any prerequisite needs for the test event. A fresh system, virtualized guest, a blank DVD ... a desire to break software?
- [A copy of the http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/17-Beta/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso Fedora 17 pre-release x64 DVD http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/17-Beta/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-17-Beta-i386-DVD.iso i686] with all updates from
updates-testinginstalled] - Time
- Usb key
- DVD ISO image of latest Fedora 17 beta
- Free space on HD
- (optional) Your hardware profile uploaded to Smolt according to these instructions
- (optional) Beer (if you're adult)
How to test?
Graphical Method - Windows only. For flashing from Fedora please use the terminal for now.
Fedora LiveUSB sticks can be created in Windows and Linux using the liveusb-creator.
For Windows using the following steps:
- Download liveusb-creator from http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator
- Double click 'liveusb-creator'
If you are using Fedora use the command line:
$ su -c "yum install liveusb-creator"
Flash the DVD ISO image to the live USB stick by running the following command in a terminal:
livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr <path to iso> /dev/sdb #(the attachment point of the *device*)
To start the flash process, run liveusb-creator in a terminal.
After install run the this command:
$ livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr <path to iso> /dev/sdb #(the attachment point of the *device*)