Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux
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@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?
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@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.
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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.
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@phlipelder Yeah I'm a fan of Rufus on windows but like the Fedora media writer on Fedora
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@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.
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@scottalanmiller That is true. I am just saying I use both systems regularly
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@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?
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@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.
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@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/sdbTrying now..
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@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/sdbSame result
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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 abortedInstead 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?
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@scottalanmiller said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@black3dynamite I've not seen that happen. This is every time?
It happened twice so far with the same USB.
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@black3dynamite said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@scottalanmiller said in Make a Bootable Windows 10 USB Installer from Fedora Linux:
@black3dynamite I've not seen that happen. This is every time?
It happened twice so far with the same USB.
Try another USB, maybe there is something wrong with that one?