I am on the phone walking my dad through installing Fedora Workstation. He knows he needs to create a USB stick, and so the first thing he did was install Fedora Media Writer _to the USB stick_. Maybe we could explain that more clearly. :)
Hi Matthew,
I believe that the corresponding section of the Installation Guide [1] is quite clear in this regard, isn't it?
--Mirek
[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f33/install-guide/install/Prepar...
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 8:28 PM Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I am on the phone walking my dad through installing Fedora Workstation. He knows he needs to create a USB stick, and so the first thing he did was install Fedora Media Writer _to the USB stick_. Maybe we could explain that more clearly. :)
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On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 05:27:34PM +0100, Mirek Jahoda wrote:
Hi Matthew,
I believe that the corresponding section of the Installation Guide [1] is quite clear in this regard, isn't it?
I thought so too, but it was not to my dad.
Specifically, everything in https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f33/install-guide/install/Prepar... was "blah blah blah" to him, as he has no idea what a Unetbootin or a syslinux are (and has no need to). So he skimmed that and skipped down to to https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f33/install-guide/install/Prepar... and was confused in the middle of steps 2, where the installer itself asks where to install to. Apparently C:\Program Files (or whatever) is the default, but he was unsure if that should be changed to the USB drive.
(Compare to the Mac instuctions below that, which say "copy the mediawriter file into your applications folder".)
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Matthew Miller -
Mirek Jahoda