Fedora Media Writer is able to automatically download the required image for them and write them in a dd-like fashion, using either dd itself or some other way to access the drive directly.
This overwrites the drive's partition layout though so it also provides a way to restore a single-partition layout with a FAT32 partition.
Troubleshooting
If you experience any problem with the application, like crashes or errors when writing to your drives, please open an issue on Github.
Please don't forget to attach the FedoraMediaWriter.log file that will appear in your Documents folder ($HOME/Documents on Linux and Mac, %USERPROFILE%\Documents on Windows). It contains some non-sensitive information about your system and the log of all events happening during the runtime.
Building
- You can build FMW using the default Qt cmake build system. The gist for all three platforms is written below.
Linux
- You should specify the target directory using the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX cmake option. The default prefix path is /usr/local
- It can be done like this:
- cmake [OPTIONS] .
- The main binary, mediawriter, will be written to $PREFIX/bin and the helper binary can be found on the path $PREFIX/libexec/mediawriter/helper.
- Requirements
- udisks2 or storaged
- xz-libs
Windows
- Building FMW in Windows is just the matter of running cmake and make - as long as you have all dependencies in your include path.
- To create a standalone package, use the windeployqt tool, included in your Qt installation. You will probably have to include a bunch of not included DLLs.
- It is also possible to crosscompile the application using the MinGW compiler suite in Fedora (and probably some other distros).
- Requirements
- xz-libs
macOS
- Again, you can just run cmake and make.
- To release a standalone package, use macdeployqt, supplied with your Qt installation.
- Requirements
- xz-libs
What's New
- Add Fedora COSMIC spin (#842)
- Don't install FMW on Windows to C:\Program Files (x86) (#791)
- Updated translations
