Dev1 Galaxy Forum / Not devuan, but need a windows install disk, now synaptic problem

Re: Not devuan, but need a windows install disk, now synaptic problem

dummy@example.com (askfor) — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:14:26 +0000

Far as I understand, ms-sys is MBR related. Are Windows 10 capable of being installed on MBR partitioned disk ? I don't know because I never went beyond Win7.

As for other problem, as previous poster said, try adding the repository to sources list. Also check the:
apt-cache policy
to see if there might be some pinning/priority related problem. Don't forget to run apt update after adding the repository to sources.list

Re: Not devuan, but need a windows install disk, now synaptic problem

dummy@example.com (Calamity) — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:10:08 +0000

I've used WoeUSB once to successfully make a bootable Win7 USB under MX Linux. The program spewed a fat error at the very end of the ISO writing process, but everything actually turned out fine. It booted and installed without any problem.

Re: Not devuan, but need a windows install disk, now synaptic problem

dummy@example.com (chris2be8) — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:07:09 +0000

I'd try manually updating /etc/apt/sources.list or a suitable entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ to add the extra repository, then restart synaptic. That should get round the problem with synaptic.

But I don't have any Windows systems so can't help any more than that.

Re: Not devuan, but need a windows install disk, now synaptic problem

dummy@example.com (Mike-thinky) — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:49:35 +0000

Well got nowhere with that. I managed to get ms-sys installed directly from the command line, so a windows bootable install made on linuz still seemed to fail completely. "ms-sys" seems to stop at win7 looking at the options available, and I am have win10 on the family members computer.

The only thing that worked was to use another win computer where I had access to an admin account, made a rescue disk, from an install repair option then copied the sticky keys exe to top of c DRIVE, and substituted a command prompt for sticky keys exe.
Next install managed to invoke sticky keys with repeated shift key entry and then updated the admin password.
Now have full access to the errant computer.

Also recent advice is that ventoy is not as trustworthy as it once was, best avoided.

But the other issue is still there, from the gui I cannot see the synaptic repository settings at all on the devuan pc!

Re: Not devuan, but need a windows install disk, now synaptic problem

dummy@example.com (Elyon) — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:22:18 +0000

There are couple of solutions:
1. Use USB drive with Ventoy installed and then just copy Win iso to the usb drive and reboot. in GRUB choose your ISO [Enter] then Wim Boot [enter].
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
2 Use woeusb-ng
https://pypi.org/project/WoeUSB-ng/

I would go with number 1.

Years back I have done Win install disks only by using Gparted. But this was years ago and don't remember the procedre anymore.

Not devuan, but need a windows install disk, now synaptic problem

dummy@example.com (Mike-thinky) — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:11:06 +0000

Hi,

I wanted to add the repository to allow ms-sys to be installed, I need to repair a windows PC in my family.
Anyway, in Synaptic GUI, selecting the repository button does nothing, a spinning something for couple of secs, then synaptic does not open anything to let me continue.

Is there a quicker way to get ms-sys available on my devuan laptop?