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      1337
      last edited by 1337

      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.

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      • PhlipElderP
        PhlipElder @scottalanmiller
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        @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.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @PhlipElder
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          @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?

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          • black3dynamiteB
            black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
            last edited by black3dynamite

            @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.

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            • ObsolesceO
              Obsolesce @1337
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              @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.

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              • black3dynamiteB
                black3dynamite @Obsolesce
                last edited by

                @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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                • ObsolesceO
                  Obsolesce @black3dynamite
                  last edited by

                  @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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                  • PhlipElderP
                    PhlipElder
                    last edited by

                    This is what a Rufus formatted USB flash drive looks like:

                    0_1533527315238_2018-08-05 MangoL - Rufus Formatted USB.PNG

                    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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                    • jmooreJ
                      jmoore @PhlipElder
                      last edited by

                      @phlipelder Yeah I'm a fan of Rufus on windows but like the Fedora media writer on Fedora

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @jmoore
                        last edited by

                        @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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                        • jmooreJ
                          jmoore @scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          @scottalanmiller That is true. I am just saying I use both systems regularly

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender @Obsolesce
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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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                            • dbeatoD
                              dbeato @scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              @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/

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                              • IRJI
                                IRJ
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                                @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
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                                • IRJI
                                  IRJ
                                  last edited by

                                  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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                                  • black3dynamiteB
                                    black3dynamite @IRJ
                                    last edited by black3dynamite

                                    @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
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                                    • IRJI
                                      IRJ @black3dynamite
                                      last edited by

                                      @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..

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                                      • IRJI
                                        IRJ @black3dynamite
                                        last edited by

                                        @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

                                        IMG_20190702_220747.jpg

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                                        • black3dynamiteB
                                          black3dynamite
                                          last edited by

                                          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
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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
                                            last edited by

                                            @black3dynamite I've not seen that happen. This is every time?

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