Justin cattyhouse

Creating a Windows 11 Install USB in 2022

I have been installing Windows for a long time. Does it get easier? I want to say it gets easier, but it seems like there's always some new wrinkle! These instructions are as much a note to my future self as they may be useful to anyone else.

For me, I was not able to get any exfat-based installs, or even any of the GUI helpers to make this process any more straightforward. Maybe on your target Windows / host OS those helpers will work, but the below process (as of current year) is consistent, and not overly complicated.

Overview:

Downloading an official ISO image from MS:
- https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
Formatting the drive (at least 8GB) as GPT, and one FAT-format partition (aka MS-DOS)

Can use Disks or Disk Utilty for this

Go (Golang) GOOS and GOARCH

All of the following information is based on go version go1.17.1 darwin/amd64.

GOOS Values

GOOS	Out of the Box
`aix`	✅
`android`	✅

Requirement

Console / Cloud Shell access (via https://cloud.oracle.com)
Go to the instance page and under Resources -> Console connection -> Launch Cloud Shell connection

Steps

In Ubuntu OR any other Free tier Linux OS

# Download Alpine Linux and install it on disk
cd /
wget https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/releases/x86_64/alpine-virt-3.16.2-x86_64.iso

Vim cheat sheet

Starting Vim

vim [file1] [file2] ...

	#!/usr/bin/env dash
	#
	# SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense
	#

	CC=clang
	LD=ld.lld
	STRIP=llvm-strip

	# -fuse-ld= tells compiler to use specific linker above