Fedora Workstation 43 installation: ‘It is not recommended to use this media.’ Solution

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There was this closed thread that did not help me.

But I found a solution and wanted to post it here.

The problem was that I was getting Fedora Workstation 43 verification error in memory stick verification during Fedora 43 install:
‘It is not recommended to use this media.’

So what I tried:

  1. Fedora Media Writer in Fedora 43 GNOME in my x86_64 mini-pc → corrupted USB stick 1 (or the verification fail mentioned above)
  2. Took another working USB stick 2
  3. Rufus in Windows 11 in same machine → corrupted USB stick 2 (or the verification fail mentioned above)
  4. BalenaEtcher in Windows 11 in same machine
  • Fedora COSMIC to the previously corrupted stick 1
  • Linux Mint to the previously corrupted stick 2

Both sticks now worked flawlessly.

No need for any checkdisk, partitioning or any kind of USB stick repair or reformat.

Some USB-stick creators just don’t do the work very well.

Props to BalenaEtcher in this case. It is also for Linux and Mac.

EDIT: Even though not USB stick fault, also my working installs were failed because of some Python related errors.

So, any of the Atomic Fedoras didn’t manage to go through the installing,
But all official Fedoras did install nicely. Even the Everything Fedora which I now use.

Thanks!
Manu

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Failures at 4.8% tend to mean that the stick was written cleanly but Windows then messes with it as/when it’s ejected and that alters the checksum. In almost all cases, there’s nothing wrong with the stick, or the ISO written to it.

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Not necessarily Windows - it can be reproduced purely within Fedora.

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