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Added an alternative way of making a windows bootable flash
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@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ How to create RW flash drive:
# Create a Microsoft Windows based Flash disk image # Create a Microsoft Windows based Flash disk image
An alternative version of this can be found [here](https://github.com/pikvm/pikvm/blob/master/pages/Community_FAQ.md#an-alternative-to-making-a-windows-boot-img-that-does-not-require-a-physical-usb-flash-drive) An alternative version of this can be found below that does not require a physical usb flash
This procedure will create a disk image of a USB stick. This is mostly required for Microsoft Windows (TM) based images since they are larger than the CDROM based limit of 2.2GB. This procedure will create a disk image of a USB stick. This is mostly required for Microsoft Windows (TM) based images since they are larger than the CDROM based limit of 2.2GB.
You can create a bootable USB stick with the normal Microsoft tools, e.g. Media Creation Tool. You can create a bootable USB stick with the normal Microsoft tools, e.g. Media Creation Tool.
@ -163,3 +163,61 @@ Once you have the desired USB stick perform the following on the RPi to create t
9. Select Drive Mode: `Flash` and then `Connect drive to Server`. 9. Select Drive Mode: `Flash` and then `Connect drive to Server`.
You should be able to then mount it locally on the server, or reboot the device to do things like BIOS updates. You should be able to then mount it locally on the server, or reboot the device to do things like BIOS updates.
# An alternative to making a windows boot img that does not require a physical usb flash drive
- Physical USB is not needed but external system is mandatory
- Create Ventoy image (on Ubuntu x86 machine) (Unaware of a windows version)
```
dd if=/dev/zero of=ventoy.img bs=1M count=4700 status=progress
```
- This makes a ventoy.img file, I would name this what it is EG: ventoy_win10.img
- At the same time, download Media Creation Tool and select iso
- On the Ubuntu machine
- At the time of this, it was 1.0.51, change to latest version
```
wget https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases/download/v1.0.51/ventoy-1.0.51-linux.tar.gz
tar zxvf ventoy-1.0.51-linux.tar.gz
sudo losetup -f ventoy.img
sudo losetup -l | grep ventoy (To locate which loop device was used)
sudo losetup /dev/loopXX ventoy.img
sudo sh ~/ventoy-1.0.51/Ventoy2Disk.sh -i /dev/loopXX (This will make a loopXXp1 and a loopXXp2 and will format both partitions
cd /media/XXX (Usually your login)
mkdir ventoy
sudo mount /dev/loopXXp1 /media/XXX/ventoy
```
- Either cp/scp over the .iso you downloaded from the Media tool or use a NFS mount
```
sudo cp windows.iso /media/XXX/ventoy
sudo umount /dev/loopXX
sudo losetup -d /dev/loopXX
```
ssh into the Ubuntu system (Or whatever OS you are using)
- On Pi-KVM
```
cd /var/lib/kvmd/msd
mount -o remount,rw .
```
- On Ubuntu
```
scp ventoy.img root@pikvm:/var/lib/kvmd/msd/images
```
- On Pi-KVM
```
touch /var/lib/kvmd/msd/meta/ventoy.img.complete
```
- Mount ventoy.img as normal flash and select the PIKVM boot device, it should popup with the VenToy logo with the window.iso as a selection