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Mike-thinky

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Registered: 2021-10-28

Posts: 79  

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

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?

Elyon

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Registered: 2026-03-25

Posts: 28  

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

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.

Last edited by Elyon (Today 17:34:26)

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