Well – sometimes have to do a bit weird things…
Today need to create bootable USB flash drive with Windows 10 from Linux.
There are various solutions but today I found the woeusb
utility and it works pretty well plus it can format a drive to a necessary filesystem.
Install on Arch Linux from AUR:
$ yaourt -S woeusb
Find your flash drive:
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 477G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part /boot
├─sda2 8:2 0 16G 0 part [SWAP]
└─sda3 8:3 0 460G 0 part
├─vg_arch-root 254:0 0 50G 0 lvm /
└─vg_arch-home 254:1 0 410G 0 lvm /home
sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 931.5G 0 part /backups
sdc 8:32 1 14.3G 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 1 14.3G 0 part
Here it is /dev/sdc
in this case.
Run WoeUSB:
$ sudo woeusb --device Downloads/Win10_1809Oct_English_x64.iso /dev/sdc
WoeUSB v@@WOEUSB_VERSION@@
==============================
Mounting source filesystem...
Error: File "/media/woeusb_source_1550995484_30256/sources/install.wim" in source image has exceed the FAT32 Filesystem 4GiB Single File Size Limitation and cannot be installed. You must specify a different --target-filesystem.
Refer: https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB/wiki/Limitations#fat32-filesystem-4gib-single-file-size-limitation for more info.
Unmounting and removing "/media/woeusb_source_1550995484_30256"...
You may now safely detach the target device
Okay…
Check the filesystem type on the device:
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 14.3 GiB, 15376000000 bytes, 30031250 sectors
...
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1 * 2048 30029823 30027776 14.3G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
There is ready solution in the documentation here>>>.
Run woeusb
again with the --target-filesystem
option and set the NTFS:
$ sudo woeusb --target-filesystem NTFS --device Downloads/Win10_1809Oct_English_x64.iso /dev/sdc
WoeUSB v@@WOEUSB_VERSION@@
==============================
Mounting source filesystem...
Wiping all existing partition table and filesystem signatures in /dev/sdc...
...
Creating NTFS volume structures.
mkntfs completed successfully. Have a nice day.
...
Mounting target filesystem...
Copying files from source media...
...
Installing GRUB bootloader for legacy PC booting support...
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Installing custom GRUB config for legacy PC booting...
Resetting workaround to prevent 64-bit systems with big primary memory from being unresponsive during copying files.
Unmounting and removing "/media/woeusb_source_1550995613_701"...
Unmounting and removing "/media/woeusb_target_1550995613_701"...
You may now safely detach the target device
Done!
The target device should be bootable now
Done.
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Top comments (2)
Damn, thats awesome. This could use a frontend though!
Do you mean UI? Maybe woeusb even has it...
Yeah, it is -
woeusbgui
.I just always prefer to use a terminal.