* ISOs with tons of Rock Ridge deep directory entries (such as OPNsense)
can be very slow to scan due to the nature of deep directory parsing,
which requires processing the whole ISO9660 fs, for each deep directory
file, in order to find the relevant LSN entry.
* Since we don't expect much of the content we care about to reside in a
deep directory entry, we amend the code to cut short the scan of any
directory that contains such elements.
* Note that this only applies for ISO scan and it does nothing to speed
up the ISO extraction process.
* Related to issue #1575
* The upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 comes with MD5 validation turned on by default.
* When creating persistent boot media, we may update some of the validated files
to add persistence, update the search labels, etc.
* Make sure that the files we modify get their MD5 updated where needed.
* Also add 'loopback.cfg' to the list of config files we can add persistence to.
* Part of #1499
* Among other nefarious things, ubuntu 20.04 added a $casper_flavour suffix
to their grub.cfg /casper/vmlinuz kernel option, so we can no longer rely
on 'persistent' being inserted in a proper location.
* Switch to latching on file=/cdrom/preseed and hope that it will work for
all of Ubuntu & derivatives.
* Part of #1499.
* Commit 4c5adf092e moved us away from using CreateFile()
when extracting a file on the target media, and as such the error code returned when
failing to create an 'autorun.inf' due to a security solution has shifted.
* Make sure we handle the new error and don't bail out on 'autorun.inf' creation.
* Also update the actual name of the RtlDosPathNameToNtPathNameXXX function we use.
* Closes#1496
* Implement CreatePreallocatedFile() which uses NtCreateFile() to create files with preallocated sizes.
This is used during ISO extraction to improve performance.
* Remove now-unused preallocate_filesize which was called after CreateFileU().
* Closes#1445
* While compressed EFI bootloaders are not an issue for UEFI:NTFS, some UEFI firmwares
embed an NTFS driver that doesn't support NTFS compression.
To address that, also uncompress the EFI bootloaders on NTFS.
* Closes#1424
* When using compressed NTFS, having a compressed bootmgr prevents BIOS boot, so we
now call `compress -u` where needed to leave the relevant bootmgr files uncompressed.
* Closes#1381
* Also fix a minor warning in ext2fs
* While we need to detect that 'txt.cfg' is a Syslinux config file, so that
we can alter it for persistence, it should never be used as a main config
file, such as the one we link to when we create /syslinux.cfg.
* Closes#1375
* Because we install our own ldlinux.sys, we must ensure that if the ISO contains
an ldlinux.sys in the root directory, this file is not copied over. However, our
comparison for the 'ldlinux.sys' string was case sensitive which means that some
ISOs such as R-Drive Image boot ISO, that use 'LDLINUX.SYS' were trying write over
our file, resulting in a file extraction failure.
* This patch ensures that the string comparison for 'ldlinux.sys' is case insensitive.
* Also add 512px sized icon (upscaled using waifu2x)
* You can use <Alt> to switch modes during an operation that supports it (e.g. Checksum
computation, DD image writing or zeroing, save to VHD, download, etc.
* IMPORTANT: This is *NOT* available for all operations. Especially, if you were hoping
to get transfer speed or ETA during ISO or WIM extraction, you *WILL* be disappointed.
* Also harmonize the code in checksum.c
* Only UEFI boot for now (GRUB) & requires a post 2019.07.26 ISO for Ubuntu.
* This adds the relevant persistence/persistent kernel option to the conf file, sets the
expected volume label and creates a /persistence.conf file where needed.
* Also improve token parsing by ensuring a token is followed by at least one white space.
* Add display of persistence controls on relevant images
* Add progress on ext3 formatting and improve error reporting
* Also improve MountVolume() and fix some Coverity warnings
* What would be nicer was if half these Coverity issues weren't false positives...
* Also update Readme and fix progress bar colour not being reset after error
* This is accomplished through Fido (https://github.com/pbatard/Fido), a *SIGNED*
PowerShell script, that is downloaded from GitHub and that resides in memory for
the duration of a session.
* The reason we use a downloaded PS script, rather than an embedded on, is because:
- Microsoft have regularly been changing the deal with regards to how retail ISOs
can be downloaded, and not for the better, so we can't simply embed a static
means of downloading ISOs and expect that to work forever.
- By using an external script, we can immediately respond to whatever new means of
*ANNOYING* their legitimate users Microsoft will come up with next, as well as
make sure that, the minute a new retail version of Windows becomes available, it
also becomes available for download in Rufus.
* Note that if you are concerned about downloading a remote PS script that is being
run at the same level as an elevated application, you should understand that:
- Only scripts downloaded from GitHub, from an account that is protected with 2FA,
are allowed to run (i.e. someone would first have to steal a *physical* 2FA key
to be in a position to upload a malicious script).
- On top of this, only scripts that are signed with a separate private key (RSA +
AES-256), that is itself also protected with a strong unique password which only
a single person knows (and must manually enter each time they want to make a new
version of the script available for download), are allowed to run.
The above means that there's about as much chance for someone to manage to upload
a malicious script on the GitHub servers, that Rufus would allow to run, as there
is for someone to upload a malicious version of Rufus itself.
Still, if you are paranoid and have concerns that, even as you can validate from
its source that Rufus does not attempt to execute any remote script unless a user
actively selected and clicked the DOWNLOAD button, you can also completely disable
the remote script download feature, if you just set the update check to disabled
(which, by the way, Rufus *EXPLICITLY* asks you to choose whether you want to
enable or not, the very first time you run the application).
* Also remove _unlinkU() which duplicates what DeleteFileU() already does.
* With no thanks whatsoever to Microsoft for *NOT* documenting that you need
to pass flag 0x2000000 to WIMCreateFile() if you want to avoid an open error.
One has to wonder if Microsoft isn't deliberately adding *BULLSHIT FLAGS*
that only they know of, to hinder competing third-party tools...
* efi.img was not always being properly process (e.g. proxmox-ve_5.2-1.iso)
* Note that this doesn't mean that the ISO will properly boot, just that we will
now properly detect and install the EFI bootloaders that reside within the .img
* Also add a test ISO to display these controls
* The intent is to use the next round of translation to get these new UI elements localized,
as any translation work takes _months_, and it is a precondition to start working on #691.
* Also fix new issues with image options when switching language
* Now preallocate the file size for each extracted file, to help the target
filesystem avoid fragmentation issues and thus increase writing speed.
* Closes#1170
* Required to support Debian Live 9.1 in ISO mode
* Note that this only works if the efi.img boot files do not require
additional content besides the one extracted from the ISO.
* Rufus now checks for processes with handles opened on the drives/volumes before
starting the format operation and asks the user if they want to continue.
* This mimics Windows' behaviour when formatting drives, and actually uses the
same message as the one from shell32.dll.mui.
* Closes#773
