I’ve been using Linux for years, and don’t have any Mac or Windows computers. I just received a new Laptop 12 that I bought for my wife, and want to install Fedora 42 on it, but your instructions only tell how to create the boot disk from Mac or Windows. There is no mention about creating the boot disk using another Linux computer. I looked on the Fedora website, but in the webpage “Creating and using a live installation image” they mention using “Fedora Media Writer” utility, with a link to what is supposedly instructions about how to use it. However, the link just takes me back to the “Creating and using a live installation image” web page, which then is an endless loop.
Anyway, I could just create the boot disk using the “dd” linux command, but am not sure if that approach still works as I have been upgrading my system through the Fedora versions ever since Fedora 20 something, and haven’t needed to do a new install for a long time. Any pointers on the best approach to doing a new install on the Laptop 12 using my current Linux system as a base would be appreciated.
Thanks,
George Ganoe
You can pretty much use any available “ISO burner” software.
Fedora Media Writer is one of those and there are others like Impression, even BalenaEtcher I think has a linux version available.
I’ve been loving Ventoy for making bootable media. Once installed it leaves you with a partition you can just drop all the iso files you want to be able to install on a machine.
I’ve now got a windows 11, Debian, arch, fedora 42 plasma, Kinoite and a couple of other isos sitting there I can boot into on any of my machines.
Sure I mostly use them only once, but it’s just so easy to drop an iso in, eject it and boot up a machine in that OS.
yup, dd still works. That is what i use most of the times.