Well – sometimes have to do a bit weird things…
Need to create bootable USB flash drive with WIndows 10 using console on 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.
Intsall on Arch Linux from AUR:
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$ yaourt -S woeusb
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Find your flash drive:
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$ 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
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Here it is in this case – /dev/sdc.
Run WoeUSB:
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$ 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
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Okay…
Check the filesystem type on the device:
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$ 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)
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There is ready solution in the documentation here>>>.
Run woeusb again with the --target-filesystem option and set the NTFS:
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$ 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
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Done.
