For Fedora, we have the "Fedora Media Writer" available for all platforms to write USB disks: (yes, it can write your Debian image as well, not just Fedora)
See the download page for how it's integrated into "user experience" with download links Download Fedora Workstation (getfedora.org) <https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/> Source and binaries: FedoraQt/MediaWriter: Fedora Media Writer - Write Fedora Images to Portable Media (github.com) <https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter> Mark E. Fuller, Ph.D. HaShikma 19, Apt. 24 Nesher 3681219, Israel +972 (0)53-872-6579 +1 401-236-4526 mark.e.ful...@gmail.com mark.e.ful...@gmx.de @mefuller:matrix.org https://www.stossrohr.net PGP Fingerprint: 73F1 A30C BDF4 DB4B C75F FD0F D599 E76C FFCA BF60 mark.e.ful...@gmail.com mark.e.ful...@gmx.de @mefuller:matrix.org https://mefuller.github.io/ <mark.e.ful...@gmail.com> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 3:35 PM Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > I tried to walk a friend through using Windows 10 to create a bootable > Linux USB disk, so they'd install their first Linux box. > > Debian (and FreeBSD) recommend win32diskimager. Arch suggested a few > other tools, of which I tried Rufus 3.19 and "dd for windows". The > first and third didn't work at all; the second worked once but not again > on the same image. > > Rather than try a fourth tool, I went ahead and created the bootable USB > disk for my friend myself using good old dd(8) on one of my existing > Linux machines. > > Now I wonder how a random Windows user is supposed to bootstrap > themselves a bootable Linux USB disk. Perhaps my experience is not > representative. > > Cheers, > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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