Comment by mattl
4 months ago
As I found out this week, making the Windows 11 USB stick is far harder than it ought to be if you don’t have Windows already.
4 months ago
As I found out this week, making the Windows 11 USB stick is far harder than it ought to be if you don’t have Windows already.
If you use UEFI, all you need is to copy the files from the ISO over to the USB stick.
Am I missing something?
(And the same applies to UEFI capable Linux-distros)
Windows installer images have some files too large for most tools to understand and also I believe the USB stick needs to be exFAT formatted too. Virtually any tool for making a USB stick would fail in various ways on macOS.
> Windows installer images have some files too large … I believe the USB stick needs to be exFAT formatted
That’s true. I forgot!
While it’s not part of the UEFI spec many (most?) consumer BIOSes will be able to UEFI boot from NTFS as well, so formatting as that might also be an option.
Both that and exfat should be easy to do on Linux. No idea about MacOS.
Which brings me to
> too large for most tools to understand
This I don’t understand. What tools? What tools do you need beside “cp”?
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