How to install Windows IoT on Raspberry Pi 2 from Linux

January 30, 2016 • 1 minute read

Windows IoT Core works on Raspberry Pi.

Prepare Micro SD card

Follow instruction how to prepare and erase micro SD card from http://lohvynenko.com/en/blog/how-to-install-ubuntu-1404-on-raspberry-pi2.html

Download and prepare Windows IoT Core image

Install 7z archive tool

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

Go to Download Windows 10 IoT Core page and download image for Raspberry Pi 2

cd /tmp
wget http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691711 -O iot_core_rpi.iso

Unarchive iot_core_rpi.iso

7z x iot_core_rpi.iso
7z x Windows_10_IoT_Core_RPi2.msi

Download ffu to img converter and convert image

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/t0x0/random/master/ffu2img.py
python ffu2img.py File_WindowsIoTRpi2Flash.ffu win10_iot_core_rpi2.img

Install Windows IoT Core

Put image to micro SD card. Where /dev/sdb your sd card

sudo dd if=win10_iot_core_rpi2.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
sync