After booting, test WiFi, BT and audio functionality.
This is an important step. One time I boldly just installed without testing anything in the live session, and discovered that HDMI and Ethernet didn’t work. Woops.
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artyom@piefed.social 2 months ago- Download the .iso file of your favorite distro from their website
- Download Fedora Media Writer
- Plug in external media (flash/thumb drive, etc.)
- Select .iso and thumb drive in Fedora Media Writer and let her rip.
- Restart PC.
- While PC is booting, press whatever your BIOS button is (do a web search for “[laptop/motherboard] BIOS button” or watch the display while booting)
- Look for boot priority in the BIOS and set the thumb drive to the highest.
- Restart
- After booting, test WiFi, BT and audio functionality.
- Follow on-screen instructions to install
- Remove install media and reboot
- Install any and all available updates using your package manager (Software, Discover, Pop Shop, etc.)
- Restart one more time
The end.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 2 months ago
Yikes. Did you at least have a working display port or something?
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
Yeah, display port worked fine. It was when I plugged the second monitor in to HDMI I realized the problem. And then couldn’t get online to search for issues.
I had to tether the desktop to my phone over USB to get a network connection.
I later installed pop!_os , tested all that stuff, and it worked out of the box.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Download Fedora Media Writer
I’ve been using Balena Etcher, but now I have an alternative, thanks!
artyom@piefed.social 2 months ago
Yeah, everyone seems to use Balena. They had some controversy a while back. Never really paid attention. FMW has the benefit of drop-down for official distros and it’s available on all platforms (unlike Rufus).
punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Balena started collecting telemetry without disclosing it to anyone, reportedly including information about what images you were flashing. Apart from a general distaste for unconsensual telemetry, I think people were concerned the data could be used for things like helping to de-anonymize TAILS users.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You need to backup any data you want to keep to another drive before installing.
Make sure there’s nothing important on the flash drive too. Writing the iso will erase everything on it.