Hi, I'm new here and just sent the introduction mail so I hope I don't do something horribly wrong here...
I see that some of the debate here is that the documentation is not full enough (uefi stuff), if I am right on this then I think the best way to handle it will be to include the relevant paragraphs from the man page on the wiki... I am willing to do this but since I don't really know what exactly you are talking about I need some guidance... I would like to see where can I see the rest of this debate and others if needed. If I did something wrong here I apologize Moshe On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com>wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2013, at 12:06 PM, John Reiser <jrei...@bitwagon.com> wrote: > > > It's a matter of cost, which varies. My out-of-pocket expense > > of burning "4x" DVD+RW (@ $0.24) has been about the same as using USB > stick (@ $12.) > > I've had USB sticks wear out (bit errors, and not from too many writes) > > after some years, just as I have had DVD+RW fail after fewer than 100 > rewrites. > > Sometimes wall-clock latency matters a lot to me; then top-quality "16x" > DVD+R > > (@ $0.25) is best. > > Besides USB being on all computers that run Fedora, and computers with > optical drives shrinking; even 16x DVD is slower than molasses on a > Minnesota Tuesday in the dead of winter. If time is money, and the choice > is a matter of cost, then DVD is expensive. > > > > I have no problems producing USB sticks that are UEFI bootable [and they > do work], > > because I read the documentation, which includes "man > livecd-iso-to-disk", > > where the "--efi" parameter is explained. > > I'm not talking about you, or me. The context from the outset was the > Installation Guide, and regular users. > > The Installation Guide does not mention man livecd-iso-to-disk, or any of > its switches. And it would be *inappropriate*, to say the least, if the > Installation Guide did refer the user to a man page. > > > I do get persistent user data when I use the appropriate incantation. > > Incantation is not in the Installation Guide. > > > I get a re-format when I ask for it via --format. > > That incantation is not in the Installation Guide. > > > > > >>> The only hassles are when I switch between i386 and x86_64, or between > >>> UEFI and non-UEFI systems, both of which work better for me with a > re-format. > > > > <<snip>> > >> So I'm still left wondering why dd is last. > > > > It's a wiki. Put your $0.02 there, too. > > OK thanks for scraping the bottom of the barrel. > > boot.iso vs Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso, presumably you prefer > Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso? > > efiboot.img doesn't actually create bootable media, so presumably you > prefer Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso for that too? > > And "Not available" for both UEFI install and minimal USB media, > presumably you agree is incorrect, and should have Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso > and Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso respectively. > > Chris Murphy > -- > test mailing list > test@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test >
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