[mdlug] Convert Windows 10 USB Stick to iso

[Brian Brodsky]

Gregory,

These are the commands that seemed to work. I can boot from the iso, but
have not actually attempted the install yet.

[brian at brian-arch-desktop ~]$ cd /run/media/brian/WINDOWS10/
[brian at brian-arch-desktop WINDOWS10]$ genisoimage -b boot/etfsboot.com
-no-emul-boot -hide boot.bin -hide boot.catalog -V "WINDOWS10" -udf -J
-r -o ~/Downloads/windows10.iso .

Thank you,

Brian

On 02/05/2016 06:36 AM, Brian Brodsky wrote:
> Gregory,
>
> Your link
> http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/04/25/how-to-create-a-windows-bootable-cd-with-mkisofs/
> looks like what I was looking for. I will play with the genisoimage
> command tonight.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Brian
>
> On 02/05/2016 12:32 AM, Gregory Czerniak wrote:
>> Easiest solution to the specific problem:
>> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO .
>>
>> In the general case, if the thumbdrive emulates a USB DVD drive, you could
>> use cdrdao (http://linuxreviews.org/man/cdrdao/) to "rip" the virtual DVD.
>> If it shows up as Mass Storage, you could probably use some variant of the
>> mkisofs command presented in
>> http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/04/25/how-to-create-a-windows-bootable-cd-with-mkisofs/
>> to do it specifically for the Windows case.  If it's not for a Windows ISO,
>> then it depends on whether you can find bootloader code that would start
>> things up properly once everything's converted to a ISO9660 or UDF
>> filesystem (assuming the filesystem is not already ISO9660 or UDF...).
>>
>> Another possibility is to use "VBoxManage convertfromraw" (
>> https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp46730497476896) to convert
>> the dd'd thumbdrive image to a .vdi file, add it as a secondary virtual
>> hard drive, and set the virtual machine to boot from secondary on first
>> boot.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Brian Brodsky <brianbrodsky at ameritech.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am feeling like a total newb. I bought Windows 10 that I want to run
>>> in VirtualBox as a guest on a Linux host. When you buy Windows 10 you
>>> get a bootable USB stick. VirtualBox does not have an option to boot
>>> from USB. I did see hacks, but I figured made more sense to create an
>>> iso and boot from that. I was able to do this using k3b gui program (I'm
>>> a kde user), but my first attempt using cli dd failed. The command I
>>> used (at root prompt) was dd if=/dev/sdc of=./windows10.iso. USB was not
>>> mounted and lsblk showed this was device I wanted. It did create a 15G
>>> iso file but VirtualBox said it was not bootable. I did create a
>>> bootable iso using k3b which is only 6.8G. Size difference is
>>> understandable since dd is an image copy and k3b is a file copy. Can
>>> somebody tell me how I could have created a bootable iso from the cli?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
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