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.

Troubleshooting

If you experience any problem with the application, like crashes or errors when writing to your drives, please open an issue here 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, C:\Users<user>\Documents). 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 qmake build system. The gist for all three platforms is written below. For a more thorough look into how the releases are composed, you can read our GitHub Actions configuration.

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 written to $PREFIX/bin and the helper binary can be found on the path $PREFIX/libexec/mediawriter/helper.

Requirements

• adwaita-qt
• udisks2 or storaged
• xz-libs

Windows

Building FMW in Windows is just the matter of running qmake and make - as long as you have all dependencies in your include path. Only MinGW (both 32b and 64b variants) works at this moment.

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

• adwaita-qt
• xz-libs

macOS

Again, you can just run qmake and make.

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

Requirements

• adwaita-qt
• 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 is 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.