Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill

On 6/25/25 9:39 PM, rbowman wrote:

There are two easy ways to burn a flash drive with a Linux ISO from
Windows:
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Rufus Web Site:
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      https://rufus.ie/ https://rufus.akeo.ie/
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Fedora Media Write for Linux and Windows:
     https://fedoraproject.org/en/workstation/download
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Fedora is less complicated.   You will notice when running that it calls
some libraries from Rufus

I don't remember the details but Fedora Media Write didn't work for me and
I wound up using rufus. I would not call it 'a fair bit of farfing
around'.
 

I use Fedora's media write frequently in Fedora.  Maybe
some of the switches were wrong in the Windows version.
The Linux version is really picky about
     --target-filesystem NTFS
being called out
Here are my Linux WoeUSB notes:
How to create Bootable M$ ISO's in Linux:
# dnf install WoeUSB woeusbgui
Note: the above downloads /usr/bin/woeusbgui
If woeusb gives you too much problems, use Rufus in qemu-kvm-W7
Erase flash drive:
# dd bs=1M status=progress if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd[x]
example (requires you to be "on line"):
# woeusbgui   Note: discontinued on FC35
# woeusb --device W7-HomePrem-SP1-OEM-x64.iso /dev/sd[x] --target-filesystem NTFS
# woeusb --device Win10_1809_English_x64.iso  /dev/sd[x] --target-filesystem NTFS
# woeusb --device Win10_22H2_English_x64.iso  /dev/sd[x] --target-filesystem NTFS
# woeusb --device Win11_21H2_English_x64.iso  /dev/sd[x] --target-filesystem NTFS
# woeusb --device Win11_22H2_22000.1165_English_x64.iso  /dev/sdb --target-filesystem NTFS
# woeusb --device tiny11-2311.x64.iso         /dev/sd[x] --target-filesystem NTFS
# woeusb --device Win10_2004_Consumer_x64_en-US.iso  /dev/sd[x] --target-filesystem NTFS
Note" --device (-d) HAS TWO PARAMETERS:
    1) the source media, and
    2) the target drive/device
Note: if it tells you the source media is mounted, do a "df -kPT" to find the
name of the mount point that shows a woeusb device.   As of WoeUSB-5.2.4-2.fc36.x86_64,
this was corrected
     # df -kPT | grep -i loop
     ...
     /dev/loop0 udf 5293786 5293786 0 100% /media/woeusb_source_1573623585_2757
unmount it:
    # umount /dev/loop0