| Fedora Test Days | |
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| Changes/LUCasPrimaryDownloadable | |
| Date | 2016-04-19 |
| Time | all day |
| Website | [website] |
| IRC | #fedora-test-day (webirc) |
| Mailing list | test |
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What to test?
Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on testing the rewritten and updated LiveUSB Creator tool, now known as Fedora Media Writer, for different operating systems and architectures. The new tool is intended to be provided as the primary download option for Fedora 24 Workstation, with the aim of lowering the barrier for potential users to try and install Fedora.
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
- Development - Jiří Eischmann (Eischmann)
- Quality Assurance - Adam Williamson (adamw), Petr Schindler (pschindl),Sumantro Mukherjee (sumantro)
Prerequisite for Test Day
Any data on the USB stick used for this test is likely to be destroyed. Please do not use a stick whose contents you need to keep.
- USB flash drive (min. 4GiB)
- Root access on the system used to write the drive (or admin access in Windows)
- The latest version of the tool (see next section)
How to test?
Install the tool
- Fedora (KDE):
dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update liveusb-creator - Fedora :
dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing install liveusb-creator - Windows: Download liveusb-creator.zip, extract it, and run the executable
Run the tests
Visit the result page and click on the column title links to see the tests that need to be run: most column titles are links to a specific test case. Follow the instructions there, then enter your results by clicking the Enter result button for the test.
Test Results
Please enter your results on the result page. The results will be transferred here after the Test Day is finished.