How to install Linux from a Windows installer

• rufus

  1 7 0.0 C++

  The Reliable USB Formatting Utility (by endlessm)

  

If anyone wants to do this without relying on the EFI/boot/bootx64.efi fallback, I wrote https://github.com/endlessm/rufus/blob/master/endless/src/en... a while back[1], which allows configuring the boot variables from under Windows.

[1] which has since been improved by Endless, so linking to their repo

• wubiuefi

  32 1,015 2.1 C++

  fork of Wubi (https://launchpad.net/wubi) for UEFI support and for support of recent Ubuntu releases

It has a fork for UEFI systems but it's also not updated anymore https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi Though it still works more or less

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• create_bcd

  1 3 - Python

  Create Windows Boot BCD files on Linux

This is actually possible. There's Linux tools to extract the WIM files from a Windows installation iso. You have to create the appropriate partition setup (EFI partition with bootloader, NTFS partition with the extracted files), and for configuration of the bootloader I created https://github.com/U1F984/create_bcd/

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