Fedora Media Writer

Fedora Media Writer is a tool that helps users put Fedora images on their portable drives such as flash disks.

It 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.

Status

The tool is still in development, features are added to it over time.

To view the current development status, visit #1 .

Building

You can build FMW using the default Qt qmake build system.

Linux

You should specify the target directory using the PREFIX qmake variable. The default prefix path is /usr/local

It can be done like this:

qmake PREFIX=/usr .

The main binary, mediawriter, will be writen 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 qmake and make.

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.

Requirements

• xz-libs

macOS

Again, you can just run qmake and make.

To release a standalone package, use macdeployqt, supplied with your Qt installation.

Requirements

• xz-libs

Translation

If you want to help with translating Fedora Media Writer, please visit our Zanata project page.

Information about the individual Fedora flavors are retrieved from the websites and translated as a separate project.

Other information

For details about cryptography, see CRYPTOGRAPHY.md.

Some brief privacy information (regarding User-Agent strings) is in PRIVACY.md.