[SOLVED] Re: Problem installing Fedora 29

[William Oliver]

On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 09:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  On 1/3/19 9:13 AM, William Oliver wrote:
>  > I just bought a brand new little HP laptop and decided to try to
>  > install Fedora 29.  I created the bootable flash drive in Windows
>  > using
>  > Rufus.  When I try to boot from the flash drive, I get the
>  > following
>  > error:
>  > 
>  > [ 8.520307] dracut: FATAL: Failed to mount block device of live
>  > image:
>  > Missing NTFS support
>  > [ 8.530427] dracut: Reufusing to continue
>  > [ 9.112611] reboot: System halted
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Any help would be appreciated!
>  
>  I've not done this, but a little googling and reading shows that to
>  create a bootable live
>  USB drive under windows you should download and install on window the
>  "MediaWriter".
>  
>  https://getfedora.org/fmw/FedoraMediaWriter-win32-4.1.1.exe
>  
>  Run it, and follow the instructions.
>  
>   
My bad.  The file was corrupted.  I forgot to check the SHA256 hash.  
When I did, the file was corrupt.  I reloaded and it worked fine
(though there's another issue I'll ask about in a different post).

Thanks.

billo