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FedoraQt / MediaWriter

Fedora Media Writer - Write Fedora Images to Portable Media
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[RFE] Direct ISO download #264

Open b-ncMN opened 4 years ago

b-ncMN commented 4 years ago

Hi, I'm coming from Etcher which has that option where a 3rd party ISO can be downloaded right off the internet from a basic link and write it directly on the USB, I love that feature and I found out that it was missing on fedora media writer, is it possible to add this feature ? it's so handy because we don't have to download the 3rd party ISO image first and then select it as a Custom Image to burn it.

Thanks

dreua commented 4 years ago

I think that feature is actually available in MediaWriter, at least for the supported Fedora versions and spins.

dreua commented 4 years ago

If there is a USB plugged in you even have the option to start writing automatically when the download is done, I think that's great!

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b-ncMN commented 4 years ago

Yes, but that's the case only if you wanna write a fedora edition / spin, not if you wanna write debian or any other kind of distribution for instance

dreua commented 4 years ago

Okay, I think this is an important distinction, please put that information in the top post and the issue title to clarify it to other readers. (e.g. "Direct ISO download of 3rd party ISOs")

I'm not a developer here but I assume that the focus of "Fedora Media Writer" is on writing Fedora images specifically. If I'm not mistaken there is also a checksum test for the downloaded images which simply can not be implement for any ISO source. In this cases the user should check the integrity of the file to prevent errors and for security before it is written to USB. Therefore in my personal opinion such a feature is not necessarily a good idea.

b-ncMN commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the advice, I modified my post to include that information