Installation report: Bootstrapping a first installation bootable USB

[Mark E. Fuller]

For Fedora, we have the "Fedora Media Writer" available for all platforms
to write USB disks:
(yes, it can write your Debian image as well, not just Fedora)

See the download page for how it's integrated into "user experience" with
download links
Download Fedora Workstation (getfedora.org)
<https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/>

Source and binaries:
FedoraQt/MediaWriter: Fedora Media Writer - Write Fedora Images to Portable
Media (github.com) <https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter>


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On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 3:35 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s at daniel.shahaf.name>
wrote:

> I tried to walk a friend through using Windows 10 to create a bootable
> Linux USB disk, so they'd install their first Linux box.
>
> Debian (and FreeBSD) recommend win32diskimager.  Arch suggested a few
> other tools, of which I tried Rufus 3.19 and "dd for windows".  The
> first and third didn't work at all; the second worked once but not again
> on the same image.
>
> Rather than try a fourth tool, I went ahead and created the bootable USB
> disk for my friend myself using good old dd(8) on one of my existing
> Linux machines.
>
> Now I wonder how a random Windows user is supposed to bootstrap
> themselves a bootable Linux USB disk.  Perhaps my experience is not
> representative.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel
>
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