Installer asks for password

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I’m trying to install Fedora 43 workstation. I created a live USB and installed it as a VM for test. It worked fine.

Then I tried to install it on the actual hardware. When I launch to install to disk it looks like a password prompt that comes up. I’m not sure though because it flashes by so fast. There isn’t time to read it, let alone enter anything, before the installer crashes.

I tried recreating the Live USB stick. Fedora Media Writer now asks for my login password before it will write to the stick. I don’t recall setting a password on the stick & I’m not sure how to get rid of it. I’m guessing this is the password the installer is looking for but I’m stuck. I either need to get rid of the password on the stick or slow down the installer long enough to enter a password. Any help would be appreciated.

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Booting from the live media usb device and running the installer should not be asking for a password of any kind.

Fedora Media Writer does require that you enter your user password before it can write to a usb device since that requires root privileges and the password request is to verify that you have sudo privileges on the system where you are using FMW.

It is not related to a password on the USB device but rather to your user privileges on the system where you are running FMW

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How do I slow down the prompt long enough to read what it’s asking for?

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So put your own user password in when asked.

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no time! it flashes past & returns an error message in a second or so

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That is not when Jeff means to put the password in.
Dont worry about that part.

Put the password in when starting Media Writer.

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did that. it writes fine.

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For a possible easy fix, I would suggest writing the ‘Everything Netinstaller’ to USB. Try installing with that, and you can select KDE or other desktops from the installer.

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I’ll give it a go

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I am not sure what prompt you are seeing.
The installer is gui and provides prompts for everything that is required, as you already saw with the test in the VM.

Lets fix one problem at a time.
Recreate the usb device with FMW, using a downloaded iso of the live media, then after it is redone if there are problems with booting from the usb device we can work with that at that time.

Even easier that using FMW, if you have the downloaded ISO available, would be to burn that to the usb device with dd. sudo dd if=<name of iso> of=/dev/sd? bs=1M where you replace the /dev/sd? with the actual name the system gives the usb device when you plug it in and you are located in the directory where the iso file is located. The ‘bs’ parameter is block size and greatly increases speed of copying to avoid using the 512 byte default.

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Installation is underway.

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I tried burning two different versions of F43 Live to USB - both flashed some type of prompt (looked like it wanted data entered) before crashing the installer. Currently installing from the “Everything” network link.

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Did the Everything Netinstaller work for you?

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When you boot the installed system for the first time, a dialogue will open to setup your user (including username and password)

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It’s up & running
I notice Dolphin doesn’t show anything above the Home directory (no \ ) so I’m thinking of trying again

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Is there another tab on the left that says ‘computer’ or ‘hard disk’ or similar?
Find that, then pin a root folder or so to that taskbar.

Its not broken, just difficult to find.

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Just typing / in the address bar should work too.