Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 980796
3.2.2.1.3 Unnecessary steps in instruction to produce USB stick with dd
Last modified: 2013-07-25 11:33:12 EDT
Description of problem: Steps 3 (checking partition layout on USB stick) and 4 (checking fs on a partition on USB stick) are unnecessary: step 5 overwrites whole USB device and hence previous partition layout and filesystems do not matter anymore. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Docs for Fedora 19 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Follow the steps 1, 2 and 5 of instruction 2. Boot the resulting USB device Actual results: USB device boots properly Expected results: Something should go wrong, as steps in guide were skipped Additional info:
*** Bug 981972 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hello Mikhail, thank you for reporting this issue. You're indeed right, steps 3 and 4 are unnecessary. The procedure in question has been changed accordingly in commit d881d1643a90911f0ff2ed04fbc71fe1b76c5331.
Additional note: The example given uses a DVD iso image (judging by the label) and I have never once been able to get a bootable stick from a DVD iso image using "dd" alone (dd works perfectly well for CD iso images). Can anyone confirm this?
Not yet online though... http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media-UNIX_Linux.html#Making_USB_Media-UNIX_Linux-RHEL_Fedora-dd
It's going to be visible online in an hour.