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I'm running Kubuntu 18.04 and I'm trying to use woeusb to create a boot memory stick for SuSE Leap. I've set the source to an ISO file for SuSE Leap and the target to /dev/sdb. I've unmounted /dev/sdb1, but I still get a puzzling error message:Source media is currently mounted, unmount the partition then try again. This is particularly mysterious because the source should be mounted.

How can I fix this?

Paul A.
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Find the USB device you want to use, in my case it was /dev/sda1 with sudo lsblk.

Then simply unmount it with sudo umount /dev/sda1 and try again in WoeUSB

Computer's Guy
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Apparently it's necessary to explicitly unmount the source file. I've never before had to unmount an ordinary file, or at least a file that's not explicitly mounted to a device. I didn't even know that it's possible, but apparently it is.

Paul A.
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  • You can loop mount some kinds of files (iso files and other image files, that contain file systems). See for example this link. Example sudo mount -o loop file.iso /mnt/ After loop mouning you can extract the content of the iso file. – sudodus May 17 '20 at 01:45
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# https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB/releases

Release='https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB/releases/download/v5.2.4/woeusb-5.2.4.bash'

Woeusb = `basename $Release`

Iso="$windows_iso_address"

cd Downloads && \
mkdir Woeusb && \
cd Woeusb && \
wget "$Release" && \
sudo su

chmod +x "$Woeusb"


Windows = 'mnt/Windows'
mkdir "$Windows"

mount -o loop "$Iso" $Windows

Loopdevice = `df -h | grep $Windows`

File_system='NTFS'
Target_file_system="--target-filesystem $File-system"
Target="$Target_file_system"

bash $Woeusb --target-filesystem $Target \
             --device "$Loopdevice" \
             /dev/sd_
abc
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  • Could you please add a few explanatory notes to your answer? Without such notes your answer has already been flagged by the Community as 'Not an Answer'... – andrew.46 Jan 14 '24 at 00:37
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Just delete the line where it is terminating the program by modifying the /usr/bin/woeusb with vim by Searching for the error "Source media**" delete the line below it saying "exit 1". After that running the woeusb still show the error but installation will not be terminated.

Santosh kurmi
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