Re: prep. for upgrade.
(see the upgrade instructions)
I did that before opening this thread:
I plan to upgrade to f31 in about a month.
I looked thru the instructions for the upgrade.
(release notes)
I had already seen those, too. They do not tell me things I should do
before upgrading to prevent trouble. For example, I don't recall the
f30 release notes telling me to back up each user's .thunderbird before
doing the upgrade.
(Fedora magazine article)
That tells me nothing more than what the upgrade instructions say.
If, as Ger implies, there's nothing (more) that I need to do beforehand,
that's fine.
(On Wed., 2020-03-11 5:42 AM, Patrick wrote)
Then why do you say you'll be downloading
a live version of Workstation? That's not
necessary for upgrading.
Y'all are missing something.
The upgrade instructions advise (I realize this is not required):
"WARNING .... As a precaution, download the Fedora Workstation Live
image <https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/> in the event
something goes wrong."
The Fedora Workstation Live image is not needed as a part of the upgrade
process proper, but in case something goes wrong. If someone does an
upgrade, and then afterwards can't log in, or worse, can't boot
successfully, then he has something to fall back on. Power down, plug
the USB stick with the Fedora Workstation Live image on it into one of
the workstation's USB ports, power up, and he has at least some
functionality, hopefully enough to diagnose and fix whatever went
wrong. This is also useful when other uncommon things go wrong (e.g.
hard drive problem, as I learned almost 3 years ago!).
(Fedora Media Writer)
Already have it. I could not find a man page for it.
bash.1[~]: man mediawriter
No manual entry for mediawriter
bash.2[~]: which mediawriter
/usr/bin/mediawriter
bash.3[~]:
Tried it anyway. I saw no way of getting f30 onto my USB stick.
"https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/" also gives no hint of a
way of making an f30 Fedora Workstation Live image.
If something goes wrong with upgrading to f31 via dnf, I want f30 on the
USB stick, not f31!
Back to original question #2:
"How do a make an f30 Fedora Workstation Live image on my USB stick?"
... or is this now impossible?