So following the official steps:
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt update
sudo apt install woeusb
Throws me an error for one of the dependancies: libwxgtk
Upon some bit of googling I found this
Which is where I found the answer to my first roadblock:
Download the libwxgtk from link provided in this comment
So woeusb gets installed properly now.
More issues
UI doesn't detect the USB devices, when I open the WoeUSB app.
Tried searching multiple things online, and then settled for doing it via cmd line.
sudo woeusb --tgt-fs NTFS --device <iso-path> /dev/sdX
Before doing that, I had to format the USB device, which I did using the disks utility of Ubuntu.
And lo and behold, first cut of the Bootable USB failed to detect.
After doing some digging, I stumbled upon this
Essentially for UEFI devices, you need to format the USB with GPT rather than MBR (default).
So repeated the whole process on with formatting the USB with GPT.
Final blocker
Now the USB got detected, and when I set the boot order and tried to boot the USB, I got a rather cryptic error: Could not start NTFS partition service
Googling for that error landed me in this Github issue
Reading through the whole conversation on the issue, one thing struck me at this comment
He had mentioned that the tool worked fine with EfiFS v1 & v1.1.
That reminded me of one of the output of the woeusb cmd line run.
It downloaded the latest version of uefi-ntfs.img from rufus github repo.
So I did a little bit of digging, and found a sufficiently old version of that file here
I downloaded this, and then rewrote this image over the UEFI:NTFS partition on the USB.
dd if=<path-to-uefi-ntfs.img> of=/dev/sdX2 # find out the proper partition reference using the disks utility
Now it finally works!!
Summary - final steps
- Download the Windows 10 ISO from official links
- Install
woeusb
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt update
sudo apt install woeusb
sudo woeusb --tgt-fs NTFS --device <iso-path> /dev/sdX
At this point, the whole thing should work for most cases.
But in case your system is old, it might throw some error about NTFS partition service. Then follow on:
- Download the old version of UEFI:NTFS partition image from here
- Overwrite the UEFI:NTFS partition with this image
dd if=<path-to-uefi-ntfs.img> of=/dev/sdX2
Try again now, it worked for me!!
Best Answer
Wubi is no longer supported and was only meant to be used for testing, not for permanent use.
At this time, Wubi does not work with the Windows 8 or Windows 10 default bootloader. Thus at this point Wubi would not work on a new Windows 8/10 machine. An alternative way of installing Ubuntu in Windows 10 is with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 which features a true Linux kernel. You would be able to install, but not reboot into Ubuntu.Wubi Guide
An important reason for including Wubi in the Ubuntu installation media has disappeared. Now that most computers have ample disk space, it is not so important to give Windows users a way of installing Ubuntu within the existing Windows partition without making an extra partition.
The default repositories in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu have an alternate package for testing the Ubuntu iso called Test Drive. However Test Drive only runs from Ubuntu and runs the test iso in a virtual machine.