Fedora media writer checksum iso

hello everyone

i read the last article from fedora magazine and there was mention of fedora media writer.
I want to try fedora media writer only I can’t find anything about whether the writer checks the checksum.

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Not sure if it does, maybe not.
However, you can check the checksum yourself.

How is described here:

You also can write an iso to usb using the “dd” command.

(Assuming you try to write the “Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34-1.2.iso”.)

First find your device, e.g with “lsblk”.
If you have problems finding it, see this link:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media-UNIX_Linux-other-dd.html

Then write it to USB, we now asume it would be /dev/sdx
sudo dd if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34-1.2.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=512k
→ note, your Data on USB will now get lost.
This probably goes a bit fast, that’s why you may need to use sync to actually write it:
sudo sync
wait a bit
eject /dev/sdx
And if you now remove and re-attach your usb stick, you should have your Fedora Install Live Media.
Verify it with “lsblk”

sdx            8:96   1   3,6G  0 disk 
├─sdx1         8:97   1   1,9G  0 part /run/media/ben/Fedora-WS-Live-34-1-2
├─sdx2         8:98   1   9,9M  0 part 
└─sdx3         8:99   1  20,9M  0 part
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thank you

I always use GNOME disk works great. I was only interested in how the media writer does it because according to the fedora guide he is the official usb stick creation.

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I found some info at the project page:

So yes, at least for Fedora Images it does perform a checksum verification.

Looks like they use “dd” for the media creation under Linux.

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I’ve used the fedora media writer for quite awhile and as Ben posted it checks the iso.Unless it’s changed it does that on all fedora and red hat based iso’s.

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thank you :smiley:

I tried the writer and it works great :grin:

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just fyi, updated documentation can be found here: Creating and using a live installation image :: Fedora Docs

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Do you think the information is important enough to add it to Fedora Documentation?

Preparing for Installation :: Fedora Docs and in Quick-Docs: Creating and using a live installation image :: Fedora Docs

@ankursinha

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Yes, certainly. Would anyone like to open pull requests to the docs to add this info?