On 3/13/20 9:49 AM, home user wrote:
I used mediawriter. I don't see how simply using dd could work.
I see
that, using mediawriter puts only one file into my Downloads directory,
but 5 top-level directories end up on my stick (was new/empty
beforehand). That suggests that mediawriter did more than merely
download and then copy.
It opens up the iso and puts the files in a partition so that you can
still use the flash drive as a storage device. However, the iso file is
designed so that you can directly write it to the raw drive and it will
be bootable. e.g. "dd if=Fedora31.iso of=/dev/sdb" That will wipe out
anything on the drive and will use all the space since there will not be
a partition table. But sometimes that will boot in cases the other
method won't.