On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 14:57 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I simply want to install Fedora 33 beta on an existing drive in this > computer. I have always started the installation process with Media > Writer. Presently it has a new undesirable quirk and insists on > installing to a WD Mybook and nothing else, but after that will come > trying to convince it that I want standard partitions not LVM, the > gui is near impossible for me to read, I keep inverting the video or
MediaWriter is used to create your installation media from the ISO file that you've downloaded. In a lot of cases, you can use the "dd" tool in the command line to datadump the ISO file onto a USB flashdrive, and boot up the installer from that flash drive. Make sure that you pick the right device for dd to write to, and that your flashdrive is big enough. The installation instructions on Fedora's website does describe this method. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/creating-and-using-a-live-installation-image/ dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M status=progress oflag=direct Some notes: Work out the device your flashdrive is mounted at, and then unmount the flashdrive. if= sets the input file path (to avoid surprises, use the full filepath). of= sets the output file path (make sure that you replace sdX with the correct device for your flashdrive). bs=8M sets the blocksize to 8 megabytes for each chunk being written to the flashdrive. status=progress gives you some indicators that write activity is happening. oflag=direct has something to do with directly writing to the drive, rather than going through a cache (which can mean you think you're writing to the drive, think that you've finished writing the drive, but the you'd only written to the cache, and writing to the drive is still going on). Some versions of dd don't support those last two options. -- 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@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
