WoeUSB

https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB

A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux

Features

• Support Legacy PC/UEFI booting
• Support FAT32 and NTFS filesystems
• Support using physical installation disc or disk image as source

Supported Windows® installation images

• Windows Vista and later
• Any language or edition variants
• Windows PE

NOTE: Non official installation media may be supported, but not guaranteed

Dependencies

The following are the dependencies that WoeUSB requires, in one way or another. Refer the wiki for distro-specific information.

Required

WoeUSB will not be able to function without these software installed in their proper locations:

• GNU Bash
  For interpreting and executing the program logic
  Requires >= 4.3
• The GNU Core Utilities(Coreutils)
  For common Unix utilities necessary for basic operations
• util-linux
  For low-level utilities interacting with storage devices, etc
• GNU Grep and Gawk
  For parsing necessary information out from a command output
• The GNU Find Utilities
  For enumerating files required for operation
• GNU GRUB
  For installing the bootstrap code used in a Legacy PC boot
  We specifically requires modules of the i386-pc architecture, for Debian-based distributions these are provided via the grub-pc-bin package
• GNU Parted
  For manipulating disk partition table and partitions
• GNU Wget
  For acquiring Pete Batard's UEFI:NTFS UEFI bootloader
• dosfstools
  For creating FAT filesystem in --device creation method
• NTFS-3G
  For creating NTFS filesystem in --device creation method

Optional

Without the following dependencies WoeUSB will still able to run, but some functionalities will be unavailable:

• p7zip
  For workaround the problem where the Windows 7 installation media doesn't ship their UEFI bootloader in the proper location
• Pete Batard's UEFI:NTFS UEFI bootloader
  For supporting NTFS filesystems in the target USB key

Installation

To be addressed. For now refer Run from source.

Run from source

WoeUSB is a program that can be run without installation(excluding its dependencies):

1. Download the program(woeusb-N.N.N.bash) from the Releases page
2. Fix the missing executable file permission (chmod +x path/to/woeusb-N.N.N.bash)
3. Launch a terminal application and run the program via the appropriate path(sudo path/to/woeusb-N.N.N.bash --help)

License

Unless otherwise specified, this product is released with The GNU General Public License, version 3.0, or any of its more recent version of your choice

Identify otherwise specified licenses applicable to a certain product/development asset

If the asset is in plaintext format:

1. Check the SPDX-License-Identifier tag in the file's header
2. Check the .reuse/dep5 file from the source tree/release tree directory

If the asset is not in plaintext format:

Check the .reuse/dep5 file from the source tree/release tree directory

Credits

WoeUSB is a fork of Congelli501's WinUSB project.