On 3/13/20 9:49 AM, home user wrote:
I used mediawriter. I don't see how simply using dd could work. I see that, using mediawriter puts only one file into my Downloads directory, but 5 top-level directories end up on my stick (was new/empty beforehand). That suggests that mediawriter did more than merely download and then copy.
It opens up the iso and puts the files in a partition so that you can still use the flash drive as a storage device. However, the iso file is designed so that you can directly write it to the raw drive and it will be bootable. e.g. "dd if=Fedora31.iso of=/dev/sdb" That will wipe out anything on the drive and will use all the space since there will not be a partition table. But sometimes that will boot in cases the other method won't.
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