Insert your thumb drive into the computer.

We need to find out where the thumb drive is mounted.  We can do this with the “df” command as shown below or you can find it in dmesg.

So if we run the df command

df -h

It returns something like this

[me@fedora ~]$ df -h
Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/fedora-root   50G   11G   37G  23% /
devtmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                    1.9G  1.2M  1.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                    1.9G  1.1M  1.9G   1% /run
tmpfs                    1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                    1.9G   52K  1.9G   1% /tmp
/dev/sdb1                477M  115M  333M  26% /boot
/dev/mapper/fedora-home  176G  125G   42G  75% /home
/dev/sdc1                3.8G  3.2G  592M  85% /run/media/me/136A-7360
[me@fedora ~]$

Note that the bottom one is the thumb drive /dev/sdc1 yours may differ.

Now that we know where the drive is mounted we can write the image to the thumb drive.

Change the path in “if=/” to the path to your Fedora iso and change “of=/” to you thumb drive path

su -c "dd if=/home/me/Downloads/Fedora-Live-x86_64-20-1.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=8M"

It will take a couple of minutes to complete and it will not give you any information until it is finished.

Congratulations, you now have a live working Fedora thumb drive.