Preparing Boot Media

To install the Fedora Media Writer using:

$ sudo dnf install mediawriter

Run the Fedora Media Writer:

$ mediawriter

To setup Flatpak on your Linux system, follow the guidelines on the Flatpak documentation page.

Run the application:

$ sudo mediawriter

Download the latest Windows Installer file from fedoraproject.org.

Run the installation by double clicking the installer, and then continue through the set-up wizard. The Wizard lets you customize the software’s installation if you choose to.

Run the application by clicking on a launcher.

Download the latest Macintosh Disk Image (the package will have a .dmg extension) from fedoraproject.org.

Open the .dmg file, and press and hold the kbd:[Ctrl] key while clicking on the Fedora Media Writer application.

Press “Open” in the pop-up menu.

Click the “Open” button in the confirmation dialog, if it appears.

Download the Fedora image of your choice from https://fedoraproject.org/ and the corresponding checksum file (use the Verify button next to the download icon).

Open a powershell session.

Change to the directory containing the downloaded files.

> cd $HOME\Downloads\
> ls

Directory: C:\Users\Pete\Downloads

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length  Name
----                -------------         ------  ----
-a---        11/25/2014  12:39 PM            272  Fedora-Server-21-x86_64-CHECKSUM
-a---        11/25/2014  12:39 PM     2047868928  Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-21.iso

Load the resources required to calculate the checksum.

> $image = "Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-21.iso"
> $checksum_file = "Fedora-Server-21-x86_64-CHECKSUM"
> $sha256 = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.sha256CryptoServiceProvider
> $expected_checksum = ((Get-Content $checksum_file | Select-String -Pattern $image) -split " ")[0].ToLower()

Calculate the downloaded image’s checksum. This will take a while!

> $download_checksum = [System.BitConverter]::ToString($sha256.ComputeHash([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("$PWD\$image"))).ToLower() -replace '-', ''

Compare the calculated checksum to the expected checksum.

> echo "Download Checksum: $download_checksum"
> echo "Expected Checksum: $expected_checksum"
> if ( $download_checksum -eq "$expected_checksum" ) {
echo "Checksum test passed!"
} else {
echo "Checksum test failed."
}

Download the Fedora image of your choice from https://fedoraproject.org/ and the corresponding checksum file (use the Verify button next to the download icon).

Open a terminal window, and navigate to the directory with the downloaded files.

$ cd ~/Downloads

Use the appropriate utility to verify the image checksum.

On a system with GNOME, or with the gnome-disk-utility package installed, open Disks using the system menu.

Click your USB device in the left column.

Click the menu icon in the upper right corner of the window, and choose the Restore Disk Image option.

Navigate to your image file and click Start Restoring. After a few minutes, it will report the process is complete and your installation media will be ready to use.

Open a terminal window and insert the usb drive.

Find the device node assigned to the drive. In the example below, the drive is given sdd.

$ dmesg|tail
[288954.686557] usb 2-1.8: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=2
[288954.686559] usb 2-1.8: Product: USB Storage
[288954.686562] usb 2-1.8: SerialNumber: 000000009225
[288954.712590] usb-storage 2-1.8:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[288954.712687] scsi host6: usb-storage 2-1.8:1.0
[288954.712809] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[288954.716682] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[288955.717140] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic  STORAGE DEVICE   9228 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[288955.717745] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[288961.876382] sd 6:0:0:0: sdd Attached SCSI removable disk

Use the dd utility to write the image.

# dd if=/path/to/Fedora-Live-Security-x86_64-21.iso of=/dev/sdd