On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 6:29 AM Bob Goodwin <bobgood...@fastmail.us> wrote:
> > > On 2020-10-20 22:09, Tim via users wrote: > > 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. > ° > > this all good information but I have never used media writer to create > the fedora.iso installation media. n a released version there is > normally a webpage offering a download which I save and can put on a > thumb drive, cdrom, whatever. > > Media writer has a "custom" which will see read the .iso from the copy I > saved in "Downloads." In this case I have the Fedora 33 beta .iso and > tried to use that file from my copy on NFS. the problem I had was it > could not be pointed to the install location, it insists on using the > 4TB drive on my LAN, and it appears that would work but it's not what I > want and normally do. I have another drive in this computer with Fedora > 31 on it and that drive should show as an available install target in > the media writer gui. > > That is how I have done. Sometimes I create install media on a flash > drive, but I have had some instances where the flash drive is not > recognized? > > However this is just something I thought I would do but does not work > and I can wait until the released version is available, in which case I > would have liked to know how to avoid the media writer application that > I always find difficult to use, but always muddle through. > > Thanks for the help, Bob > > I wouldn't do it (writing an iso over the network from NFS storage, due to > the network possibly messing up the integrity of the iso image) but you > should still be able to with the "dd" command. Issue a "mount" command and > you should see the mount path of your NFS storage. Then, as Bob explained, > do "dd if=/path/to/NFS-storage/image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M status=progress > oflag=direct" >
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