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https://github.com/woeusb/woeusb

A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux
https://github.com/woeusb/woeusb

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

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# WoeUSB



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



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![WoeUSB logo](share/woeusb/woeusb.svg "Logo of WoeUSB")



## 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](https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB/wiki/Dependencies) for distro-specific information.



### Required



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



* [GNU Bash](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/)  

  For interpreting and executing the program logic  

  _Requires >= 4.3_

* [The GNU Core Utilities(Coreutils)](https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/)  

  For common Unix utilities necessary for basic operations

* [util-linux](https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux)  

  For low-level utilities interacting with storage devices, etc

* [GNU Grep](https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/) and [Gawk](https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/)  

  For parsing necessary information out from a command output

* [The GNU Find Utilities](https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/)  

  For enumerating files required for operation

* [GNU GRUB](https://www.gnu.org/software/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](https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/)  

  For manipulating disk partition table and partitions

* [GNU Wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/)  

  For acquiring [Pete Batard](https://pete.akeo.ie/)'s [UEFI:NTFS](https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs) UEFI bootloader

* [dosfstools](https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools)  

  For creating FAT filesystem in `--device` creation method

* [NTFS-3G](https://www.tuxera.com/community/open-source-ntfs-3g/)  

  For creating NTFS filesystem in `--device` creation method

* [wimlib](https://wimlib.net/)  

  For splitting install.wim Windows Imaging (WIM) archive so that archives over 4GiB can be fit in an FAT32 filesystem



### Optional



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



* [p7zip](https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/)  

  For workaround the problem where the Windows 7 installation media doesn't ship their UEFI bootloader in the proper location

* [Pete Batard](https://pete.akeo.ie/)'s [UEFI:NTFS](https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs) UEFI bootloader  

  For supporting NTFS filesystems in the target USB key

* [GNU gettext](https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/)  

  For supporting message internationalization(I18N)



## Installation



To be addressed.  For now refer [Run from source](#run-from-source).



## Run from source



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



1. Download the program(woeusb-N.N.N.bash) from [the Releases page](https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB/releases)

1. Fix the missing executable file permission (`chmod +x path/to/woeusb-N.N.N.bash`)

1. Launch a terminal application and run the program via the appropriate path(`sudo path/to/woeusb-N.N.N.bash --help`)



## Usage



### Environment variables



The following are the environment variables that may change WoeUSB's runtime behavior:



| Variable name | Usage |

| :-: | :-- |

| RUFUS_UEFI_NTFS_VERSION | The release tag/revision of [the Rufus source tree](https://github.com/pbatard/rufus) to fetch the UEFI:NTFS image from, will use a tested version by default |



## License



WoeUSB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.



WoeUSB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.



You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with WoeUSB.  If not, see .



### 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

1. Check the [.reuse/dep5](.reuse/dep5) file from the source tree/release tree directory



If the asset is not in plaintext format:



Check the [.reuse/dep5](.reuse/dep5) file from the source tree/release tree directory



## Credits



* WoeUSB is a fork of [Colin GILLE's WinUSB project](https://web.archive.org/web/20210228120035/http://en.congelli.eu/prog_info_winusb.html), without standing on their shoulders WoeUSB will not exist in the first place

* We would like to thank [@slacka](https://github.com/slacka) for the maintenance of the WoeUSB project [when it was hosted under their namespace](https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB), they have been extremely helpful and cooperative in many conversations that contributed in WoeUSB's improvement

* We would like to thank [Pete Batard](https://pete.akeo.ie/) for their splendid work on the [UEFI:NTFS](https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs) UEFI bootloader, which is included in WoeUSB to enable the NTFS filesystem support

* Source code contributors on GitHub:

    + [Contributors to WoeUSB/WoeUSB](https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB/graphs/contributors)

    + [Contributors to slacka/WoeUSB](https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB/graphs/contributors)

* Everyone who have contributed to WoeUSB in one way or another but we're unable to enumerate them due to our ignorance