Bug 752499

Summary: Incorrect instructions for making bootable USB key
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Enterprise CMS Reporter: Tony Camuso <tcamuso>
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Description Tony Camuso 2011-11-09 17:28:53 UTC 
Description of problem:

This page in the documentation is wrong.
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media.html

You cannot make a bootable USB key by dd'ing the iso fie to the USB key. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
N/A

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media.html
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Actual results:

Says "dd if=path/image_name.iso of=device"

Expected results:

Instruct user to use a utility like unetbootin to create a bootable USB key from an iso image. 

Additional info:
Comment 1 Tony Camuso 2012-02-08 17:35:48 UTC 
If this is not going to be fixed, then please remove it from the documentation. 

We have people spinning cycles trying to test this, and we shouldn't be doing that if this is not really going to be support.
Comment 2 Tony Camuso 2018-04-18 17:05:03 UTC 
Closing. No response after six years.