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[Enhancement] Return a warning, when a Windows ISO is provided, that Windows is unsupported. #903

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@RokeJulianLockhart

The Problem

As discussions/900#discussioncomment-14815919 explains:

Writing Windows ISO images has never been supported or tested. I suspect the usual workflow that works for Fedora or other Linux distributions will not work here.

Explicit feature requests to implement this have also been rejected. 1 Therefore, the writer should not indicate that it does not support such ISOs. 2 In 5.2.8-1.fc42, it does not:

  1. Image

  2. Image

How To Reproduce

I have downloaded what massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts/discussions/1134#discussioncomment-14780084 cites, to /home/RokeJulianLockhart/Documents/The_Unsanitised/ISOs/Windows11_InsiderPreview_EnterpriseVL_x64_en-gb_27924.iso.

My Environment

Name         : mediawriter
Version      : 5.2.8
Release      : 1.fc42
Architecture : x86_64
Install Date : Sun 27 Jul 2025 12:35:25 BST
Size         : 2585493
Signature    : RSA/SHA256, Wed 23 Jul 2025 16:15:18 BST, Key ID c8ac4916105ef944
Source RPM   : mediawriter-5.2.8-1.fc42.src.rpm
Build Date   : Wed 23 Jul 2025 14:26:13 BST
Build Host   : buildvm-x86-17.rdu3.fedoraproject.org
Packager     : Fedora Project
Vendor       : Fedora Project
URL          : https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter
Bug URL      : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/mediawriter

Footnotes

  1. issues/614#issuecomment-1699192275

  2. issues/669#issuecomment-3453781576

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