Making bootable Windows Server 2016 installation USB stick [duplicate]

Is there an Ubuntu 16.04 counterpart to these instructions ? I need to create a bootable Windows Server 2016 USB drive; since it contains file larger than 2Gb, mkusb and similar tools, which try to format the target as FAT32, fail.

unetbootin refuses to accept NTFS-formatted USB drive, either.

As far as I understand, the problem is in finding Linux counterpart for "bootsect /nt60" command, to copy Bootmgr boot sector to target USB drive.

Is it possible without actually using a Windows computer?

1

1 Answer

Last time I had problems making USB with 64 bit Windows, the dd command helped:

First unmount the drive:

sudo umount /dev/sd<?> 

Then write the iso to /dev/sd? drive, replace question mark with your usb drive letter from lsblk command.

sudo dd bs=4M if=input.iso of=/dev/sd<?> conv=fdatasync

1