Problem with the live ISOs and creating bootable USB installation media?

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Sun Oct 28 00:44:40 UTC 2007


On 28/10/2007, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/10/2007, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So that works. It looks like  something changed with how the ISOs are
> > structured such that the livecd-tools under F-7 are broken with the
> > F-8 isos. This isn't good, as I think I'm describing what will be
> > quite a common use case when F-8 is released (i.e. people wishing to
> > create bootable F-8 sticks under F-7 in order to upgrade).
>
> To answer my own question, the reason is that in the ISO as composed
> from current Rawhide squashfs.img is now located in the LiveOS
> subdirectory rather than in the root directory. I'll have a look at
> pathing the livecd-tools script.
>

Sorry to continue the monologue, but just to say I've added a patch to
Bug #355541 to fix this.




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