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 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
