Fedora Media Writer Fedora Project

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Use this command to install Fedora Media Writer:

winget install --id=Fedora.FedoraMediaWriter -e

Fedora Media Writer is a tool designed to assist users in writing Fedora operating system images onto portable storage devices such as USB drives. This application simplifies the process of preparing bootable media for installing or testing Fedora on various hardware configurations.

Key Features:

Supports Multiple Image Formats: The tool works with different types of disk images, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of use cases.
User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive design makes it easy for both new and experienced users to create bootable media without technical complexity.
Validation Checks: Performs checks before writing the image to ensure data integrity and prevent errors during installation.

Audience & Benefit: Ideal for Fedora enthusiasts, system administrators, and developers who need a reliable way to install or update their systems. It saves time and reduces the risk of human error, ensuring smooth installations across various devices.

Fedora Media Writer can be installed via winget, making it easily accessible to users familiar with package managers. Its straightforward approach ensures that preparing bootable media is efficient and hassle-free for those working with Fedora distributions.

Fedora Media Writer

Fedora Media Writer is a tool that helps users put Fedora images on their portable drives such as flash disks.

It is able to automatically download the required image for them and write them in a dd-like fashion, using either dd itself or some other way to access the drive directly.

This overwrites the drive's partition layout though so it also provides a way to restore a single-partition layout with a FAT32 partition.

Fedora Media Writer running

Troubleshooting

If you experience any problem with the application, like crashes or errors when writing to your drives, please open an issue here on Github.

Please don't forget to attach the FedoraMediaWriter.log file that will appear in your Documents folder ($HOME/Documents on Linux and Mac, %USERPROFILE%\Documents on Windows). It contains some non-sensitive information about your system and the log of all events happening during the runtime.

Building

You can build FMW using the default Qt cmake build system. The gist for all three platforms is written below. For a more thorough look into how the releases are composed, you can read our GitHub Actions configuration.

Linux

You should specify the target directory using the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX cmake option. The default prefix path is /usr/local

It can be done like this:

cmake [OPTIONS] .

The main binary, mediawriter, will be written to $PREFIX/bin and the helper binary can be found on the path $PREFIX/libexec/mediawriter/helper.

Requirements

udisks2 or storaged
xz-libs

Windows

Building FMW in Windows is just the matter of running cmake and make - as long as you have all dependencies in your include path.

To create a standalone package, use the windeployqt tool, included in your Qt installation. You will probably have to include a bunch of not included DLLs.

It is also possible to crosscompile the application using the MinGW compiler suite in Fedora (and probably some other distros).

Fedora Media Writer Fedora Project

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Fedora Media Writer

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