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...
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.
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