I use Fedora Silverblue on a VM. Some day, I figured out I wanted to download Fedora onto my USB stick. (always a good idea) So I used Rufus to copy over the .iso file I downloaded, restarted my PC, mashed F12, booted off the stick and… It just says my stick is full. It has 64gb, 2gbs taken up by Fedora, and everything else is empty. I also tried it with my HDD that has 256gb, also with 2gbs taken up by Fedora, and nothing else, but it just says i have 1000kb left. (yea… 1000kb. think of that!) All help is useful. Thanks!
When copying OS installers to USB drives, you normally have to wipe the entire USB drive, and in Linux’s case usually overwrite the entire USB with the iso’s contents.
For Rufus, ideally you should have written Fedora’s image in DD mode (not hybrid ISO). In this case, the USB drive will likely show as full to Windows, but it’s fine.
Hybrid ISO from Rufus might work, but no idea what that does to Linux images, and afaik that would knowingly cause Fedora’s Test Media option at boot to fail around 4%. But without the media check (and assuming Rufus wrote it correctly) it should still boot, unless Silverblue’s image does something different.
But overall, I’d re-write the Silveblue image to a USB drive in DD mode. Personally I’d use Etcher on Windows as I’ve even had Rufus have failed Fedora media checks with DD mode.
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Your stick may be full because the Fedora install has a too small partition. You can maybe try to increase the partition size using sudo btrfs resize max / (I think that is the command) but why?
Do you want to use this to test the system?
Also what says your usb is full? Silverblue has no live boot media, only the normal Fedora Workstation and spins have one
Just a clarification: who says that is full?
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When flashing a bootable image to a media, such as USB, the remaining space will not be formatted into a file system partition but rather left as unformatted free space. File managers will show the USB’s size equal to the flashed image’s size, and not to the actual disk size.
Utilities for managing block devices and partition tables, such as fdisk or GNOME Disks are needed to check the remaining empty space on the media used to flash Fedora.
I agree with @Espionage724 about the reliability (and ease of use) of balenaEtcher.
I don’t have anything else Linux except for the VM. Can you tell me a way to do it on Windows? (and I know nothing about commands in Linux) I tried Etcher, but it just repeatedly gives me error codes.
In the Fedora installation screen, (after I booted off the drive) it says “You don’t have enough space to install Fedora.”
I think there are 2 misconceptions here.
First the usb device where the iso is written for installation. It may be 4GB or 128GB (or anything in between) physically. However once the iso has been written to that device the device will only show the size of the ISO and not the physical size. The device cannot be written to or altered until the iso is removed and the device repartitioned to the physical size.
This is the nature of the ISO and not a fault of the usb device.
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is related to the amount of space on the drive being used for the installation. There must be adequate unallocated space on the drive to allow installing fedora. If there is inadequate free (unallocated) space on the drive this message will appear. This is about the hard drive (HDD or SSD) that fedora is being installed onto.
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Hold on, are you trying to install Fedora onto the same drive you used for the iso?
…ye (I know nothing about having a second OS)
In the first part, does it mean I have to delete the ISO? Dosen’t the ISO download Fedora?
And in the second part, my whole drive is part of a partition.
o yea I don’t use the test media option
I’m guessing you want to use “Disk 3” 232.88 GB FAT32 for Fedora. Fedora’s Installer preserves existing data, so you need to delete the partition so you have “free space”.
I wouldn’t recommend doing that. If you put the .iso on a USB stick (using Rufus/Etcher/Fedora media writer or whatever), then you have to install to the HDD or a different USB stick.
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