Creating windows 11 installation media from linux
Seems like creating windows 11 installation media is problematic without a windows os. Tried Balena Etcher, woeusb and Fedora media writer and were unable to produce bootable image.
Now trying out ventoy.
https://ventoy.net/en/download.html
- Steps
- Install ventoy into an usb storage (Note install it as GPT and not MBR for obvious reasons, more storage size support, etc.)
- Copy downloaded iso file into ventoy usb partition
- You can copy any number of iso into this partition it seems
- Disable CSM support in motherboard bios
- Restart bios
- Enable Secure Boot in bios
- Secure Boot mode - Standard
- Restart bios
- There was a error for some reason, key error, I had to enroll the key into MOK database using the options provided
- Still it did not work, windows 11 installation reported that my system does not meet the requirements
- Now only step 4, and not step 6.
- Disable CSM
- Disable secure boot
- With this I was able to install
I don’t know why this has to be a pain in the butt.