On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 07:28 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > this all good information but I have never used media writer to > create the fedora.iso installation media. Other way around. You give Media Writer your downloaded ISO file, and it creates a bootable disk (optical disk or flashdrive) from the ISO file. Then you boot that disk (whatever kind it is), and install from there. Media Writer gives you some options about the kind of bootable installer disk you want, but that's going to depend on what files it had available to work with. I'm not aware of any way that you could use Media Writer to actually install an OS from it (well, beyond it creating a live bootable thing on a removable disc). Possibly it could be forced into creating a live bootable disk on a fixed drive in a PC, but I see no documentation on doing anything like that. > Sometimes I create install media on a flash drive, but I have had > some instances where the flash drive is not recognized? Depending on how the flash drive is written, it might not be bootable. In the past, some bootable USB sticks were made to act like a giant floppy. These days, they seem to emulate a bootable CD. Either way, it requires a motherboard that can boot from a USB drive. A common mistake people make is to copy the install.iso file onto the flashdrive, and they get a flashdrive with one big iso file on it. You need to use a tool that writes the data from the ISO image to the flashdrive (essentially, the ISO file a whole filesystem wrapped up in one file, rather like an archive that will be unpacked). Using "dd" is a simple command line way to do that. Media Writer gives you a fancy front end for doing virtually the same thing. > I would have liked to know how to avoid the media writer application > that I always find difficult to use, but always muddle through. "dd" on the command line is one alternative. But I suspect your problem is expecting Media Writer to do something that it doesn't do, and you forgot how you actually did it last time. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 25 17:23:54 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
