On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 12:51 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 7/5/20 12:48 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 12:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > On 7/5/20 12:01 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
> > > I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from
microsoft.com
> > > that I
> > > put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical
> > > machine,
> > > but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot
> > > menu,
> > > but
> > > it won't boot.
> > >
> > > I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went
> > > fine.
> > > I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two
> > > different
> > > USB-sticks and two different physical target machines.
> >
> > Boxes will make it a DVD drive, not USB.
> >
> > Isn't Brasero only for writing to optical media? Anyway, I would
> > just
> > use dd to write it to the flash drive.
> >
> > In a terminal (change sdc to whatever your flash drive is):
> > sudo dd if=windows.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress
>
> Same result.
>
> Also tested creating a bootable USB-stick with a Centos ISO-file.
> No
> problem.
Maybe that file can't be booted from usb. Are there any
instructions
from Microsoft about how to do it? I know I have done it a couple
of
times in the past.
Installer iso-files that couldn't be put on a usb-stick doesn't seem to
make sense. The file is called Win10_2004_English_x64.iso
After the iso-file is on the stick Gnome Disks gives the contents as
UDF version 1.02 and it can be mounted.
I have to see if I can find any special instructions from
microsoft.com, although they would probably not cover how to do it on
Fedora