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  • Using Fedora mediawriter to create a bootable image from an ISO

    From Martin Gregorie@3:770/3 to All on Thu Mar 10 18:24:34 2022
    XPost: uk.comp.os.linux

    Has anybody successfully used Fedora's mediawriter to set up a bootable
    image from a downloaded iso image?

    Thanks to a bit of finger trouble, I need a bootable image of the XFCE
    spin of Fedora 35 (x86_64) for an old Lenovo r61i using an Intel i3 chip.
    So far I haven't done anything more to its disk (a 128GB SSD) which it
    can't boot from due to the aforementioned finger trouble.

    I successfully downloaded an ISO containing the XFCE spin of Fedora 35
    but, because the ISO is 3.5 GB, it won't fit on a writable CD. I have a USB-connected CD writer and mediawriter is bright enough to not even try writing to it.

    The mediawriter program, which I'd just downloaded, claims to be able to
    write a bootable image to any USB-connected device, so I stuck a 4GB SD
    card in a USB-connected SD reader and mediawriter reported no problems
    when writing the ISO image to the SD card on my Lenovo T440, but the r61i
    only blinks the LED on the SD reader tries to boot off the buggered image
    on the SSD.

    Since mediawriter has no help display (--help does nothing) or manpage
    I'm temporarily out of ideas, so any suggestions will be gratefully
    received.

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  • From Martin Gregorie@3:770/3 to druck on Thu Mar 10 21:36:02 2022
    XPost: uk.comp.os.linux

    On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:34:27 +0000, druck wrote:

    On 10/03/2022 18:24, Martin Gregorie wrote:
    [Snip]

    I fail to see anything relevant to this newsgroup, why not try somewhere
    more appropriate.

    Look at the ng list?

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  • From druck@3:770/3 to All on Thu Mar 10 21:34:27 2022
    XPost: uk.comp.os.linux

    On 10/03/2022 18:24, Martin Gregorie wrote:
    [Snip]

    I fail to see anything relevant to this newsgroup, why not try somewhere
    more appropriate.

    ---druck

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  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Martin Gregorie on Thu Mar 10 23:35:56 2022
    Hello Martin!

    Thursday March 10 2022 18:24, you wrote to All:

    Wow, I did not know it was available for Raspbery pi Arm processors.

    Vince


    XPost: uk.comp.os.linux

    Has anybody successfully used Fedora's mediawriter to set up a
    bootable image from a downloaded iso image?

    Thanks to a bit of finger trouble, I need a bootable image of the XFCE
    spin of Fedora 35 (x86_64) for an old Lenovo r61i using an Intel i3
    chip. So far I haven't done anything more to its disk (a 128GB SSD)
    which it can't boot from due to the aforementioned finger trouble.

    I successfully downloaded an ISO containing the XFCE spin of Fedora 35
    but, because the ISO is 3.5 GB, it won't fit on a writable CD. I have
    a USB-connected CD writer and mediawriter is bright enough to not even
    try writing to it.

    The mediawriter program, which I'd just downloaded, claims to be able
    to write a bootable image to any USB-connected device, so I stuck a
    4GB SD card in a USB-connected SD reader and mediawriter reported no problems when writing the ISO image to the SD card on my Lenovo T440,
    but the r61i only blinks the LED on the SD reader tries to boot off
    the buggered image on the SSD.

    Since mediawriter has no help display (--help does nothing) or manpage
    I'm temporarily out of ideas, so any suggestions will be gratefully received.




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  • From A. Dumas@3:770/3 to Vincent Coen on Fri Mar 11 01:16:03 2022
    Vincent Coen <nospam.Vincent.Coen@f1.n250.z2.fidonet.org> wrote:
    Wow, I did not know it was available for Raspbery pi Arm processors.

    If you want to give usenet netiquette advice (I assume this was a sarcastic version of "wrong group"), how about you a) don't top post, b) fix your
    goddamn time representation in the fidonet gateway, c) use a correct
    subject header with "Re: ", d) adhere to usenet quoting conventions without added spaces or initials.

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  • From Martin Gregorie@3:770/3 to A. Dumas on Fri Mar 11 11:11:47 2022
    On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 01:16:03 +0000, A. Dumas wrote:

    Vincent Coen <nospam.Vincent.Coen@f1.n250.z2.fidonet.org> wrote:
    Wow, I did not know it was available for Raspbery pi Arm processors.

    If you want to give usenet netiquette advice (I assume this was a
    sarcastic version of "wrong group"), how about you a) don't top post, b)
    fix your goddamn time representation in the fidonet gateway, c) use a
    correct subject header with "Re: ", d) adhere to usenet quoting
    conventions without added spaces or initials.

    Actually, there is or was a version of Fedora for RPi.

    Apologies for any ruffled feathers, but I posted here as well as on uk.comp.os.linux because this is the most active group.

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  • From druck@3:770/3 to Martin Gregorie on Fri Mar 11 22:14:09 2022
    XPost: uk.comp.os.linux

    On 10/03/2022 21:36, Martin Gregorie wrote:
    On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:34:27 +0000, druck wrote:

    On 10/03/2022 18:24, Martin Gregorie wrote:
    [Snip]

    I fail to see anything relevant to this newsgroup, why not try somewhere
    more appropriate.

    Look at the ng list?

    Don't cross post.

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