Bug 752499 - Incorrect instructions for making bootable USB key
Summary: Incorrect instructions for making bootable USB key
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise CMS
Classification: Retired
Component: documentation
Version: nightly
Hardware: All
OS: All
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high
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Assignee: ccm-bugs-list
QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-09 17:28 UTC by Tony Camuso
Modified: 2018-04-18 17:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-04-18 17:05:03 UTC

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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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3.
  
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.
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