It seems that neither winsub or woeusb are installable, except from source but I don't want to go down that rabbit hole, on Ubuntu 18.04. So what is the normal way of making the simplest thing - a bootable Windows USB?
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3Some of the answers there don't apply to 18.04 unfortunately which is why I asked it again.– Alex BotevApr 26, 2018 at 5:55
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@AlexBotev: In that case please refer to the answers that apply to 18.04 instead. Unless all answers are outdated I don't see a need for a new question.– David FoersterMay 4, 2018 at 7:50
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Well, the winusb and other similar programs do not run on 18.04. I tried the answer given below but that does not seem to make a bootable USB stick either. So at this stage, I'm yet to see an answer that actually works in 18.04?– Alex BotevMay 6, 2018 at 17:23
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1mkusb works in 18.04 LTS. See this link, mkusb-nox and mkusb version 12 can create Windows install drives– sudodusMay 7, 2018 at 14:07
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@sudodus I got this error at the end: Bootloader: Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map. mkcmd_runcmd: mk_msdos:error grub-install:error. Failed. p_clean: clean if necessary and return clean if necessary and quit– Alex BotevMay 11, 2018 at 8:05
2 Answers
UPDATE: a more modern and user friendly way to create a bootable drive in ubuntu is using the multibootusb application.
download the deb package and install.
from my testing of it, it can create:
- linux [persistent] bootable drives for uefi and bios
- windows bootable drives for uefi and bios
- multiboot [persistent] linux bootable drive. ie multiple linux bootable ISOs on one drive
- windows and linux multiboot drive. ie windows and linux reside on the same partition of the same drive
to create a windows bootable:
- Insert an empty drive. usually formatted as fat32
- Launch the application
- select the drive partition (eg /dev/sdXY) from the
select usb
drop down - select the windows ISO file
- Click Install
OLD ANSWER: First find your usb device name:
lsblk
you get something like
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
sda 179:0 0 4.2G 0 disk
├─sda1 1 79:1 0 3.8G 0 part /home/user/blabla
based on the sizes your USB disk we are assuming your USB is sdX in this
case sda so /dev/sda
replace this with yours
unmounted the usb device.
then put an mbr table on it (all info on it would be lost):
sudo parted /dev/sdX mklabel msdos
then create a brand new partition on the device:
sudo cfdisk /dev/sdX
choose New enter the appropriate value and hit enter then select primary followed by Write and type yes to create the partition
lets check the partitions again to be sure:
lsblk
format the partition to the appropriate format:
sudo mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdXY
where y is a number
mount the partition:
sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt
now let us extract the windows iso unto the usb:
sudo apt install p7zip-full
sudo 7z x /path/to/windowsfile.iso -o/mnt
after extraction unmount the partion:
sudo umount /mnt
you have created the bootable disk, just reboot and use
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I'll try it tomorrow and if it works would happily mark it as an answer. Apr 26, 2018 at 5:56
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This worked for me on 18.04. I tried several suggestions before this, and none of them worked.– NocturnoMay 12, 2018 at 4:55
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1It won't work with some windows ISO files because they contain large files (greater then 4GB). Probably using NTFS as fs would work. Jan 10, 2019 at 16:06
If you need this now, you can download repo and run script in src/, like
sudo ./woeusb -d ../../Downloads/Win10_1803_EnglishInternational_x64.iso /dev/sdX