Re: Slightly unusual test install case for f14 beta on a laptop

2010-10-05 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > AIUI this is mostly a documentation issue, because the behaviour of > nautilus is intentional (it's meant to truly 'eject' the device, i.e., > completely remove it as far as the kernel is concerned). Yes indeed, but it should be presented

Re: Slightly unusual test install case for f14 beta on a laptop

2010-10-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 22:46 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:16 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > > > >> This presumes the key is already formatted with a boot flag set. The > >> documentation is just not clear enough to b

Re: Slightly unusual test install case for f14 beta on a laptop

2010-10-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:16 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > >> This presumes the key is already formatted with a boot flag set. The >> documentation is just not clear enough to be easily understandable >> even by experienced Fedora users (I ha

Re: Slightly unusual test install case for f14 beta on a laptop

2010-10-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:16 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > This presumes the key is already formatted with a boot flag set. The > documentation is just not clear enough to be easily understandable > even by experienced Fedora users (I have been with Fedora since its > inception!) And you don't know

Re: Slightly unusual test install case for f14 beta on a laptop

2010-10-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:16 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > I have now had the chance to try out another install from usbkey as a > source of the install iso. I have reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639718 -- mike c -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: Slightly unusual test install case for f14 beta on a laptop

2010-10-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:57 PM, mike cloaked wrote> > One pure Fedora method that should work I have not tested with a > usbkey, but I will run a test this weekend, is to write the DVD iso to > the usbkey using the livecd-tools package - i.e. > > livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr > /path-to/

Re: Slightly unusual test install case for f14 beta on a laptop

2010-10-02 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:22 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > I have an old Amilo D68 laptop that cannot boot from a usbkey and I > wanted to run a test install of the beta for f14 but without having to > burn a physical DVD. so I started poking around for a way to do it > from a usbkey. One pure Fed

Slightly unusual test install case for f14 beta on a laptop

2010-10-01 Thread mike cloaked
I have an old Amilo D68 laptop that cannot boot from a usbkey and I wanted to run a test install of the beta for f14 but without having to burn a physical DVD. so I started poking around for a way to do it from a usbkey. Since the BIOS does not allow booting from a usb device I found that ther