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Fedora Media Writer: The fastest way to create Live USB boot media

April 26, 2016
Sumantro Mukherjee
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    This post provides a quick tutorial about Fedora Media Writer and its usage in both Fedora and Windows. Fedora Media Writer is a very small, lightweight, comprehensive tool that simplifies the Linux getting started experience. It downloads and writes your favorite Fedora flavor onto a USB drive, which can be later used to boot up any system.

    This also means you can now create Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) LiveCDs in just a few minutes. Since RHEL was recently made freely available to all developers, you can download the ISO to use with the Fedora Media Writer.

    How can you get Fedora Media Writer?

    For Fedora (requires Fedora 24):

    sudo dnf install liveusb-creator

    For Windows: You can download Fedora Media Writer here and execute liveusb-creator.exe with admin privileges.

    How does Fedora Media Writer work?

    For both Windows and Linux, it works in exactly the same way. When you run Fedora Media Writer, you should see a dialog like this:

    Run Fedora Media Writer.

    1. Run Fedora Media Writer.

      Choose your favorite Fedora flavor.

    2. Choose your favorite Fedora flavor (or other operating system).

      Click Create Live USB and wait for it to download and write.

    3. Click Create Live USB and wait for it to download and write.

    Want to make this better?

    You can go ahead and test the basic test cases and post your karma. You can also go ahead and contribute to GitHub with patches.

    Note the Fedora Project also provides multi-platform command-line instructions for creating live USB media.

    Last updated: July 2, 2024

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