On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 10:04 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Upon completing it's work media writer presents a block that says > "Install." I do not know what happens after I click on that except > that it does what is needed to finish the job. Quite possibly it is > using "dd" as you describe. It installs your ISO file onto a disc as a bootable disc. It doesn't install an OS onto a computer to run. You then use that bootable disc to either run it as a live OS, or install onto a hard drive. Going from what I've read, Media Writer can use dd as the underlying tool, or it can use something else. It's just a guiding hand for someone to put an ISO onto something to boot from. -- 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