Step 1 says "Download the Fedora Media Writer app below." For Linux users, there is no description of how to get that program.
For Fedora "sudo dnf install mediawriter" should work. Sadly, the F27 version defaults to burning F26 onto the stick.
For Linux, a simple old-school dd should work (it always has). But that is a bit hard-core. And various arcane flags significantly improve performance. Furthermore, specifying the wrong disk could be disastrous. Here's my best guess (not checked!). How do you explain what ??? should be?
sudo dd if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-28_Beta-1.3.iso of=/dev/??? bs=1M oflag=direct
There's also the issue of making sure that the stick is neither mounted nor ejected before the dd.
Summary:
the description is misleading for Linux users
the correct way for users of Linux other than Fedora is too difficult and dangerous.
I think that mediawriter defaulting to f26 sounds like a bug. I would guess something would need to be filed at https://github.com/MartinBriza/MediaWriter regarding changing the default version.
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Personally I'm not sure about suggesting using dd, for the same reasons you mentioned above. I've used livecd-iso-to-disk but I'm not sure i that's any different than dd, really.
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Do you believe if we are able to expand the Download the Fedora Media Writer app below statement, that would be sufficient?
Download the Fedora Media Writer app below
I was trying to act like a naive user. They are the ones who will have problems.
It seems funny that Linux users are not handled correctly instructed on this page.
Yes, "Download the Fedora Media Writer app below" needs to be reworked somehow. At a minimum starting point "Download the Fedora Media Writer app AS DESCRIBED below".
Will Fedora Media Writer work on other Linuxes? For example, how can a Mint user run it?
A footnote, hidden away somehow, saying dd should just work, would take some of the mystery out of the process for some people. But it would just confuse most people.
MediaWriter does seem to be available for other LInux distributions https://github.com/MartinBriza/MediaWriter/tree/master/dist.
We could link that section to a more detailed page like https://docs.fedoraproject.org/quick-docs/en-US/creating-and-using-a-live-installation-image.html, which includes some pieces on using dd.
Metadata Update from @sijis: - Issue tagged with: docs, easyfix, getfedora.org
It would be best if we could start advertising the flatpak bundle that Martin provides for mediawriter. It is a one-click install on most modern (and not so modern) linux distros, and it works without scary dd commands.
This recent PR (https://pagure.io/fedora-websites/pull-request/823) addresses the content so it better directs folks to the correct package. It does suggest using flatpak, but its at least consistent in using dnf and steering away from using dd.
MR #823 has been merged.
Metadata Update from @sijis: - Issue close_status updated to: Fixed - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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