However, the nice thing about the new media writer is that it avoids any confusion for new users about the target device — which is critical since picking the wrong one can be catastrophic. So Fedora highly recommends the new media writer. How did it not work for you? I have never had dd fail on me and most Fedora images nowadays are much more than the size of a CD. The only exception was if the flash drive was already broken. FMW works in a very similar way to dd, except it does utilize UDisks to access the drives and open their block devices.
Might have been a BIOS problem. I am fairly new to Linux and inspired by reducing my dependency on licensed property. With hiking and camping as favorite pastimes, I have had to assume a minimalist approach and cannot carry a laptop on the trail. So far, every library, public and private computer that I have been able to access has booted to my Fedora operating system with some basic knowledge of BIOS.
Imagine how excited I am to have access to a lifetime of research my own hard drive using a fairly secure boot up, with no adverse affects, at every computer I encounter! What an experience of freedom. I may be wrong but I could not have imagined a simpler, lighter, more secure, portable access routine to internet.
Until just now, when I learned about Fedora Media Writer. Just please notice Fedora Media Writer is at least so far intended only for the purpose of Fedora installation and trying it out. The use case you describe requires the ability to store persistent data on the flash drive where you have loaded Fedora.
This is not yet possible with the Fedora Media Writer, unfortunately. On a different note I have tried using the media writer to create different, live user USBs with different spins and unfortunately I could not get it to work properly. Two of the three attempts were stymied by the file download errors, and the third was a simple not able to copy notice.
If this is not the correct forum to troubleshoot, please suggest suggest good options to get this working properly. So at least, a live distro could also be usable for storage. Linux, Windows, Mac. Nice to read about media writer, sounds good and useful! Is this correct? The Fedora dedicated tool Fedora Media Writer as the dd command in console, despite their convenience will close the USB-media when ending the writing process successfully, without any option available to avoid the closing operation.
This feature that subsequently make the USB-media read-only can indeed be seen as a disadvantage, as it conducts in that case to the waste of free space on USB-media of large space capacity that go far beyond the required space capacity for the creation of the USB-media itself. First I installed MW with the required package qt5-qt quick controls 5.
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The Fedora logo is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. Here is a picture of what ISO you should be downloading. The first thing that you are going to need is the ISO, the disk image that contains all the files for Fedora to run.
You can get Fedora here and save it to an easily accessible location. Just make sure that the image is up to date and that you select 32bit. We wouldn't want to use 64bit because we are striving for portability here, and many computers are not 64bit compatible, so use 32bit unless you know what you are doing, or only want to boot the flash drive on 64bit machines.
The tool we will use later has the option to download Fedora, but I do not recommend using it, as it has not worked well for me in the past. Here is a picture of where you should be downloading the tool. It is a great tool, but is incompatible with Fedora 16 in the sense that it doesn't have the ability to create a persistence installation.
A persistence installation is an installation that contains not only the Linux files, but a large blank file used to store settings and applications.
If your flash drive is 2GB or more, I strongly recommend a persistence installation! You can get the application that we are going to use here , it is called the LiveUSB-creator and is used to install Fedora and Sugar-on-a-Stick to a flash drive.
I recommend only downloading the tool from the site I linked here, the reason being as stated on the website is on the site, as seen here: Warning: There are virus-infected copies of the Windows liveusb-creator floating around various download sites on the internet. Only download the Windows liveusb-creator from this page! Ok, so you have the tool downloaded, and you should have ran and installed it. If you have not, take the time and do that now.
You should see a screen like the picture below. Let's run through the steps: 1. Target device - Make sure that your flash drive is plugged in and properly formatted to the FAT filesystem. In all cases, you can add the parameter --efi to render the stick bootable in native UEFI mode.
Detailed usage information is available by running: livecd-iso-to-disk --help or man livecd-iso-to-disk. To make an existing USB stick bootable as a Fedora image, without deleting any of the data on it, make sure that the USB drive is not mounted before executing the following, and give the root password when prompted:.
In case it is not possible to boot from a disk created with the method shown above, before re-partitioning and re-formatting, often resetting the master boot record will enable booting:.
If necessary, you can have livecd-iso-to-disk re-partition and re-format the target stick:. For example:. To enable 'data persistence' support - so changes you make to the entire live environment will persist across boots - add the --overlay-size-mb parameter to add a persistent data storage area to the target stick.
Here, is the desired size in megabytes of the overlay. The livecd-iso-to-disk tool will not accept an overlay size value greater than for VFAT, but for ext[] filesystems it is only limited by the available space.
You can use dmsetup status live-rw to see how much space remains in the overlay. Because of these limitations, it is advisable to use the system-level persistence sparingly, for configuration changes and important security updates only. Or, if you have sufficient disk space available, changes to the LiveOS root filesystem snapshot can be merged into a new copy of the root filesystem.
This method will destroy all data on the USB stick. Like the other direct write methods, it will destroy all data on the stick and does not support any of the advanced features like data persistence, but it is a very reliable method. The dd tool is available on most Unix-like operating systems, including Linux distributions and macOS, and a Windows port is available. Identify the name of the USB drive partition.
If using this method on Windows, with the port linked above, the dd --list command should provide you with the correct name. Unmount all mounted partition from that device.
This is very important, otherwise the written image might get corrupted. Fedora cannot guarantee support for UNetbootin-written images. If you encounter problems with UNetbootin, please contact the UNetbootin developers, not the Fedora developers. UNetbootin is a graphical, bootable USB image creator. Using it will allow you to preserve any data you have in the USB drive.
If you have trouble booting, however, you may wish to try with a blank, cleanly FATformatted drive. Download the latest UNetbootin version from the official site and install it. However, how you tell the system to boot from a USB stick varies substantially from system to system. Initially, you can try this:.
Usually, that should work like this:. As the machine starts to reboot, watch carefully for instructions on which key to press. Press and hold that key. If you miss the window of opportunity, often only a few seconds, then reboot and try again. If this does not work, consult the manual of your computer. It might be listed as a hard drive rather than a removable drive. Each hardware manufacturer has a slightly different method for doing so. For more information on all this, see the UEFI page.
You do not need to know this in order to use Fedora Media Writer. To find this out:. This is the name of the disk you will use. If you have connected more than one USB stick to the system, be careful that you identify the correct one, often you will see a manufacturer name or capacity in the output which you can use to make sure you identified the correct stick.
If you get this message from fdisk, you may need to reformat the flash drive when writing the image, by passing --format when writing the stick. If your test boot reports a corrupted boot sector, or you get the message MBR appears to be blank. Even if it happens to run and write a stick apparently successfully from some other distribution, the stick may well fail to boot.
Use of livecd-iso-to-disk on any distribution other than Fedora is unsupported and not expected to work: please use an alternative method, such as Fedora Media Writer.
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