Hi all, How do you write "image" file to USB stick in Windows 10? In Linux, I would do 'dd', but it has to be Windows. 'dd' is available in Git for Windows, Windows Subsystem for Linux, BusyBox for Windows, and Ubuntu in Hyper-V VM. But, I can't get them to access USB drive. -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
From Windows, you can download the Microsoft Media Creation Tool.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 4:24 PM William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi all,
How do you write "image" file to USB stick in Windows 10?
In Linux, I would do 'dd', but it has to be Windows. 'dd' is available in Git for Windows, Windows Subsystem for Linux, BusyBox for Windows, and Ubuntu in Hyper-V VM. But, I can't get them to access USB drive. -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 16:24, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
How do you write "image" file to USB stick in Windows 10?
In Linux, I would do 'dd', but it has to be Windows. 'dd' is available in Git for Windows, Windows Subsystem for Linux, BusyBox for Windows, and Ubuntu in Hyper-V VM. But, I can't get them to access USB drive.
This might be useful - or it might not. There was some mention of image writers and Windows. https://alternativeto.net/software/dd/ They mention Rufus, and so does this: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-burn-an-iso-file-to-a-usb-drive-2619270 lifewire is usually pretty reliable - although their explanation looked pretty long (didn't read it). I hope this helps. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com
I use Rufus which is written under GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3). Here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/rufus.mirror/ On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 4:44 PM Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 16:24, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
How do you write "image" file to USB stick in Windows 10?
In Linux, I would do 'dd', but it has to be Windows. 'dd' is available in Git for Windows, Windows Subsystem for Linux, BusyBox for Windows, and Ubuntu in Hyper-V VM. But, I can't get them to access USB drive.
This might be useful - or it might not. There was some mention of image writers and Windows.
https://alternativeto.net/software/dd/
They mention Rufus, and so does this:
https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-burn-an-iso-file-to-a-usb-drive-2619270
lifewire is usually pretty reliable - although their explanation looked pretty long (didn't read it).
I hope this helps.
-- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
| From: William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | How do you write "image" file to USB stick in Windows 10? | | In Linux, I would do 'dd', but it has to be Windows. This is tricky. I can tell you what I think that I know. Recent Fedora and Ubuntu .iso files can just be dded onto a USB stick and result in a bootable USB stick. Bootable either with UEFI or Legacy mode. That's actually quite a trick. Windows installation .iso images don't have this property. I think they would work when dded onto a CDROM or DVDROM, but (1) I haven't tried it, (2) I think that the image is too big anyway (it was 5.4GiB a year ago) Other programs, like Rufus or Microsoft's Media Creation Tool, do a bunch of transformations. The result (I think) is a VFAT filesystem on the USB stick. The result is bootable. Fedora has Fedora Media Writer. I've never used it. I think that versions will run on Windows, Apple, and selected Linux distros. <https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/> Ubuntu recommends Win32 Disk Imager for burning from Windows https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
On 2020-12-16 3:06 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | How do you write "image" file to USB stick in Windows 10? | | In Linux, I would do 'dd', but it has to be Windows.
IIRC, the program I usually see mentioned for this is Win32DiskImager. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the mouth-breathers, and | that's why we're powerful" Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
This is a HUGE "it depends" situation. If you want to create bootable media from an iso, use rufus. If you want to write a raw image to removable media,, you should use win32dskimager. If you just want to view the archive and copy files out use 7zip On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:30 PM Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2020-12-16 3:06 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | How do you write "image" file to USB stick in Windows 10? | | In Linux, I would do 'dd', but it has to be Windows.
IIRC, the program I usually see mentioned for this is Win32DiskImager.
-- Cheers!
Kevin.
http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the mouth-breathers, and | that's why we're powerful" Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Is Microsoft Windows now completely "free" as in GPL/Opensource? Can anyone download it, install it and then pay no money and get free support on Linux lists? Or are there free Microsoft Support Users Lists? I feel so left out of this entire conversation as I know almost nothing about Microsoft or Windows 10. It feels like this conversation has nothing to do with me. To make things worse, for me, I do daily battle with Outlook.com and all the rubbish, cyber crime and attacks from them as they succeed in mixing ham and spam and cyber crime and malware with legit email. My clients are ignorant as to who is relaying spam, cyber crime and rubbish and Microsoft seems to sometimes directly attack me. Between Microsoft and Google (Google does the same thing) they are effective at dominating, dividing and destroying. I actually do HATE @microsoft and @google behavior, strategy and lack of ethics and common decency. Now, I have to read about Microsoft and in a support and "helping" way... When their other products are plain evil. So I guess the strategy is no longer make money from operating systems but generate forever payments from Office and by dominating business email relay and "subscriptions" *sigh* On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:29:18 -0500 Ansar Mohammed via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
This is a HUGE "it depends" situation. If you want to create bootable media from an iso, use rufus. If you want to write a raw image to removable media,, you should use win32dskimager. If you just want to view the archive and copy files out use 7zip
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:30 PM Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2020-12-16 3:06 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | How do you write "image" file to USB stick in Windows 10? | | In Linux, I would do 'dd', but it has to be Windows.
IIRC, the program I usually see mentioned for this is Win32DiskImager.
-- Cheers!
Kevin.
http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the mouth-breathers, and | that's why we're powerful" Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
| From: Ansar Mohammed via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | This is a HUGE "it depends" situation. Yes. As I tried to explain (without confidence in my correctness). | If you want to write a raw image to removable media,, you should | use win32dskimager. I have heard and reported this. | If you want to create bootable media from an iso, use rufus. Not if the .iso is designed to also work as-is on a USB. You should treat at least recent Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS installation .iso files as raw images to pour onto a USB stick (or DVD, if it fits). I haven't tried other media like a USB HDD or an SD card. Fedora .iso files pass Secure Boot. If create a USB installation disk using Rufus, would it still work with Secure boot? Fedora has an option for checking integrity of the installation medium. Will a Rufus-created Fedora installation pass this integrity check?
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