2.6 KiB
2.6 KiB
DEPRECATED. USE VENTOY.
1. Download Windows 11 image: link
$ sha256sum Win11_English_x64v1.iso
4bc6c7e7c61af4b5d1b086c5d279947357cff45c2f82021bb58628c2503eb64e Win11_English_x64v1.iso
2. Plug your USB flash drive
Linux detected /dev/sde
as the USB stick, in your case it will most likely take a different name.
3. Format your USB flash drive
Work as root account and make sure to replace /dev/sde
with your USB flash drive!
Use lsblk
and dmesg | tail -50
commands to locate your USB flash drive.
wipefs -a /dev/sde
parted /dev/sde
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpart BOOT fat32 0% 1GiB
(parted) mkpart INSTALL ntfs 1GiB 10GiB
(parted) quit
Check the drive layout now:
In my case I've used 100% instead of 10GiB when created the "INSTALL" ntfs partition - mkpart INSTALL ntfs 1GiB 100%. But you can use anything that should be larger than 6 GiB to fit the data from Windows ISO image.
parted /dev/sde unit B print
Model: SanDisk Extreme (scsi)
Disk /dev/sde: 62742792192B
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1048576B 1073741823B 1072693248B BOOT msftdata
2 1073741824B 62742593535B 61668851712B INSTALL msftdata
4. Mount Windows ISO somewhere
I mounted it to /mnt/iso
directory:
mkdir /mnt/iso
mount /home/<your user>/Downloads/Win11_English_x64v1.iso /mnt/iso/
5. Format 1st partition of your USB flash drive as FAT32
mkfs.vfat -n BOOT /dev/sde1
mkdir /mnt/vfat
mount /dev/sde1 /mnt/vfat/
6. Copy everything from Windows ISO image except for the sources directory there
rsync -r --progress --exclude sources --delete-before /mnt/iso/ /mnt/vfat/
7. Copy only boot.wim file from the sources directory, while keeping the same path layout
mkdir /mnt/vfat/sources
cp /mnt/iso/sources/boot.wim /mnt/vfat/sources/
8. Format 2nd partition of your USB flash drive as NTFS
mkfs.ntfs --quick -L INSTALL /dev/sde2
mkdir /mnt/ntfs
mount /dev/sde2 /mnt/ntfs
9. Copy everything from Windows ISO image there
rsync -r --progress --delete-before /mnt/iso/ /mnt/ntfs/
10. Unmount the USB flash drive and Windows ISO image
umount /mnt/ntfs
umount /mnt/vfat
umount /mnt/iso
sync
11. Power off your USB flash drive
udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sde