Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux
-
Good to know about WoeUSB.
If you have windows available, rufus is an easy tool to make bootable USB drives.
Doesn't need to be installed and it's fast.
https://rufus.akeo.ie/But in all honesty it's very easy to make a bootable windows installer USB drive manually. Just make a primary bootable FAT32 partition on the USB drive and copy the files from the ISO onto it. Done.
You can copy more files onto the drive, for instance drivers or other software. If you do that, it makes sense to make a dd image of the entire thing when you're done. That way you can easily write a new USB drive with your custom files on it.
-
@scottalanmiller We use RUFUS by default to set things up as uEFI has a specific set of requirements for two partitions.
FAT32 will generally not work anymore as there is a 4GB file size restriction.
-
@phlipelder said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@scottalanmiller We use RUFUS by default to set things up as uEFI has a specific set of requirements for two partitions.
You can get Rufus on Fedora?
-
@scottalanmiller said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@phlipelder said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@scottalanmiller We use RUFUS by default to set things up as uEFI has a specific set of requirements for two partitions.
You can get Rufus on Fedora?
No.
And rufus can create bootable usb using dd too. -
@pete-s said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
But in all honesty it's very easy to make a bootable windows installer USB drive manually. Just make a primary bootable FAT32 partition on the USB drive and copy the files from the ISO onto it. Done.
Yeah on windows I always do it manually because it's so fast. But I always use ntfs, never fat32.
-
@obsolesce said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@pete-s said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
But in all honesty it's very easy to make a bootable windows installer USB drive manually. Just make a primary bootable FAT32 partition on the USB drive and copy the files from the ISO onto it. Done.
Yeah on windows I always do it manually because it's so fast. But I always use ntfs, never fat32.
Isn't fat32 partition needed for UEFI bootable installer?
-
@black3dynamite said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@obsolesce said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@pete-s said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
But in all honesty it's very easy to make a bootable windows installer USB drive manually. Just make a primary bootable FAT32 partition on the USB drive and copy the files from the ISO onto it. Done.
Yeah on windows I always do it manually because it's so fast. But I always use ntfs, never fat32.
Isn't fat32 partition needed for UEFI bootable installer?
I guess not, because I always specifically do fs=ntfs in disk part when I make one.
-
This is what a Rufus formatted USB flash drive looks like:
We have a fair number of different high speed and ultra-high speed flash drives we use for OS loading. Since using Rufus to set up the uEFI ones we do not have anymore issues especially with servers where things can get finicky.
-
@phlipelder Yeah I'm a fan of Rufus on windows but like the Fedora media writer on Fedora
-
@jmoore said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@phlipelder Yeah I'm a fan of Rufus on windows but like the Fedora media writer on Fedora
But Fedora Media Writer on Fedora can't write Windows media.
-
@scottalanmiller That is true. I am just saying I use both systems regularly
-
@obsolesce said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@black3dynamite said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@obsolesce said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@pete-s said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
But in all honesty it's very easy to make a bootable windows installer USB drive manually. Just make a primary bootable FAT32 partition on the USB drive and copy the files from the ISO onto it. Done.
Yeah on windows I always do it manually because it's so fast. But I always use ntfs, never fat32.
Isn't fat32 partition needed for UEFI bootable installer?
I guess not, because I always specifically do fs=ntfs in disk part when I make one.
Are you positive you're booting UEFI mode using that USB stick?
-
@scottalanmiller said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@jmoore said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@phlipelder Yeah I'm a fan of Rufus on windows but like the Fedora media writer on Fedora
But Fedora Media Writer on Fedora can't write Windows media.
I believe @JaredBusch had a post on this a while ago. Found it
https://mangolassi.it/topic/17140/create-uefi-bootable-usb-from-fedora/ -
@scottalanmiller said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
WoeUSB
Installation on Ubuntu 18.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 sudo apt update sudo apt install woeusb
-
Not working for me. I tried two different USB drives. It is just booting to a grub menu. Unless I am supposed to launch something from here.
-
@IRJ said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
Not working for me. I tried two different USB drives. It is just booting to a grub menu. Unless I am supposed to launch something from here.
I've had success using CLI instead.
sudo umount /dev/sdb1 sudo woeusb --tgt-fs NTFS --device Win10_1903_V1_English_x64.iso /dev/sdb
-
@black3dynamite said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@IRJ said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
Not working for me. I tried two different USB drives. It is just booting to a grub menu. Unless I am supposed to launch something from here.
I've had success using CLI instead.
sudo umount /dev/sdb1 sudo woeusb --tgt-fs NTFS --device Win10_1903_V1_English_x64.iso /dev/sdb
Trying now..
-
@black3dynamite said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@IRJ said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
Not working for me. I tried two different USB drives. It is just booting to a grub menu. Unless I am supposed to launch something from here.
I've had success using CLI instead.
sudo umount /dev/sdb1 sudo woeusb --tgt-fs NTFS --device Win10_1903_V1_English_x64.iso /dev/sdb
Same result
-
Not sure why but I'm getting this message using the CLI.
/usr/bin/woeusb: line 1676: echo: write error: Invalid argument The command "exit 0" failed with exit status "1", program is prematurely aborted
Instead of
Unmounting and removing "/media/woeusb_source_1559784507_8150"... Unmounting and removing "/media/woeusb_target_1559784507_8150"... You may now safely detach the target device Done :) The target device should be bootable now
-
@black3dynamite I've not seen that happen. This is every time?