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Could I make changes to a bootable Ubuntu ISO by booting into it, making changes within the OS, and re-exporting the ISO?
Suppose I have a bootable Ubuntu ISO. I would like to make several changes to the image at the OS level. The changes I want to make include changing the default user password, as well as a few other ...
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Installing Debian Bookworm - from ISO on Hard disk partition (NO CD/DVD, NO USB drive)
I would like to install Debian Bookworm onto an old laptop (Compaq Evo N1020v).
The CD/DVD -drive of the laptop is unusable (as old laptop drives often are).
Unfortunately, the laptop, although it has ...
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Why is USB stick not booting to update BIOS? Is this possible?
I want to update the BIOS for a system. I downloaded the latest ISO of the BIOS directly from the system's manufacturer.
I used Linux Mint's USB Image Writer to make a bootable USB stick of the ISO. ...
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Is there software to boot BIOS-related ISOs on UEFI-only systems?
I've not enough reputation points to comment on this (outdated) question and it has no answers, I am aware of that one existing: Bootloaders - Booting an MBR only OS using a UEFI only BIOS
After 8 ...
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How to put Windows 10 on a thumb drive with Ventoy to install?
As suggested, I've downloaded Ventoy and did run the shell script. It's not clear to me what "install ventoy" does, but I did install it to a USB stick. How would I then get Windows 10 ...
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Boot Image from Running System (Ubuntu 22.04)
I have a Linux system running in another place, which I use as processing server, now I'm adquiring a new one and I would like to export all the configuration programs and maybe folder structure to ...
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Live Kali LInux stuck at Dragon Logo on shut down, or restart
I made a live Kali USB drive using Rufus and Kali Live ISO (I am using Windows 11). When I boot using USB on my laptop, the OS although starts slowly but still boots up. But after I restart or ...
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How to mount and use iso file in windows repair mode
I'm stuck in windows repair mode of windows 10. Not even able to reset windows. So I have to install a fresh windows but my windows iso file stored in f:/windows and I have a usb drive that I am using ...
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Does any other booting system exist for ISO 9660, except El Torito?
17th sector of ISO 9660 file system may contain so called Boot Record. It is a special Volume Descriptor with type = 0x00. The only Boot Record I know is Boot Record for El Torito and it contains LBA ...
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Booting from a remote ISO file
Is there any way to boot my computer (or even my VirtualBox system) from a Linux live ISO file over the internet?
For example, I want to boot my computer through my live favorite distros before ...
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How to indicate to Ventoy (Bootable USB) to ignore some content in the pen drive?
For some laptops where do not exist the CD-ROM, for boot purposes can be used Ventoy
A New Bootable USB Solution - sadly so far is mandatory apply just only once time a formatting process to the pen ...
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Linux: Can I install a OS from a snapshot/backup?
This idea has been inside my head for years. I tried creating my own Windows version, without certain processes and, with certain configurations, and mounting a custom installer (like a custom ISO ...
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Cannot install Ubuntu 18 in VMWare Player
I am trying to install Ubuntu 18 with an iso from Canonical in VMWare Workstation Player version 16.
For the CD I am setting Connected, COnnected at Power On, Use ISO file with the path to the ISO ...
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Bootable ISO from working hard drive
I am looking for a way to create a bootable ISO image of an existing, working hard drive containing a master boot record.
Is there a known solution to this problem?
Background:
I have some critical ...
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A full blown Windows (non-PE) live CD
I stumbled on this somewhat obscure developer that goes by the name NTDEV & his stripped down Windows 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odXqeI2r5tI. Looks like his link for tiny10 is down & ...
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How to boot dd generated Win95 Image?
I want to boot an old Win95 Image, that I generated with dd by a real drive.
qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu pentium3 -m 512 -rtc clock=host,base=localtime -drive file=win95.iso,format=raw
results in qemu ...
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Can't automount partition that contain the booting iso file
I have a strange problem
i am dual booting windows with chromeos from iso file using grub2
i am using the following udev rules
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="block", ATTRS{removable}==...
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How to make a iso boot while turning on PC
How to make an ISO file I have in the internal storage of my computer boot as the PC starts up or like an actual bootable ISO as a boot option in the boot manager so that it boots up as a bootable ...
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Need help making bootable USB
Here's what I've tried on my Ubuntu system:
I downloaded Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft.
I copied the files to a different directory and also copied an autounattend.xml file there for automatic ...
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Multibootusb - Trinity Rescue Kit not working
What I would like to do: I would like to setup a multi-boot usb using multibootusb. It shall include Trinity-Rescue and a few other iso's.
The problem: Multiple iso fail to start when installing them ...
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How to create VMware-ESXi bootable USB in Linux
How to create VMware-ESXi bootable USB in Linux using the VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U3-18644231.x86_64.iso ?
Simply dd-ing the iso don't work {usb doesn't show up in boot menu} and web suggests to ...
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Convert a Live Windows ISO to a Non-Read Only Boot Image
I have a tiny windows boot ISO whos contents is not like a typical windows or windows CD file layout.
The ISO boots fine in a VM however I obvioustly cannot customize the OS because the ISO is read ...
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Creating bootable USB drive on Linux with windows 10 .iso [duplicate]
I already know this question is going to be downvoted into oblivion but, I would like to know some simple ways I can create a bootable USB drive with a Windows 10 .iso file on Linux. The distribution ...
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How make a bootable ISO for my UEFI application bare bones?
Well, I maked a rust UEFI application and run it on the efi shell of virtualbox ( development of my application is on ubuntu 20.04 and tests are hosted on virtualbox installed on windows 10 session ).
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how to edit windows 10 iso to exclude other versions
I have been going through the process of slimming down my windows 10 ISO file, but have been unable to get it below the 3.5 gb mark; Removing the windows components is not something I am hoping to do. ...
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Windows 10 Bootable ISO Install Keeps Failing (0x8007025D)
Update: The problem turned out to actually be the Kexin USB drive. Windows Install worked fine through a newly purchased SanDisk drive. What made this so hard to debug was that the Kexin drive worked ...
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Installing an ISO onto a local hard drive?
I just got an old 1997 Dell Dimension XPS Pro200n and I'm trying to figure out how to install an OS on it. Unfortunately, it does not have any USB's to boot from USB, and my previous experiences with ...
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Is it possible to add a partition table to an existing AIX ISO?
I've followed this tutorial to run an AIX on an x86 system: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/
One element of the tutorial is to get an AIX system ISO to install the ...
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Mount ISO from windows startup repair menu
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I have been experiencing some startup issues on my windows system recently and it has led to my pc not booting up at all. It just shows the windows logo and gets stuck. I reboot the pc and ...
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Booting off an iso file or efi file on an UEFI-enabled computer with windows on it
The Scenario is something like this:
I have an UEFI-Enabled computer with a clean installation of Windows 10 on it. I would like to dualboot it with Android x86 but without using any external usb ...
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Boot Linux in UEFI from repacked ISO (without writing it correctly)
I tried to unpack an ISO of Ubuntu to USB stick without writing it (i can't use superuser utilities like dd or Rufus). Then i set my USB stick first in UEFI boot priority. I got working GRUB, but when ...
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Is there a way to boot from ISO file in rEFInd Boot Manager?
I am wonder if there is such feature in rEFInd - to run ISO file located on the USB stick. I can not use any superuser utilities such as dd to write an ISO directly. I can only repack it.
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Burn ISO to USB with free space left
From what I tried, when you download for example Tails usb image (.img) and burn it to USB, it will only take space required for the image and will left remaining space free so I can format it and use ...
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Boot windows install CD from GRUB: "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD..." loops back to GRUB menu
I am trying to install windows from an installation image that is located on an NTFS partition as described here.
I had to add the UDF module, because otherwise the image just ends up being mounted ...
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No mouse support for any boot cds on my new laptop
I use plenty of boot cds aspart of my work - such as macrium for imaging, and others for partition management and a variety of other multipurpose actions. I recently bought a new laptop branded AVITA ...
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How to mount an ISO onto a drive without using explorer or PowerShell?
I want to mount an ISO onto my drive, however I cannot get into the actual Operating System, it is stuck on Startup Repair.
I have managed to get the ISO onto the drive using xcopy, however I cannot ...
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Automate the selection of isolinux boot menu options
I am trying to fully automate the testing of an ISO installer.
The ISO is bootable via ISOLINUX and can automatically install Oracle Linux 6 via Kickstart.
I have several label options in my isolinux....
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Where to get boot image for Windows 10? [duplicate]
What I need
I need the boot image file for Windows so I can create my own Windows 10 custom ISO file and/or burn it to a DVD and make it bootable.
For example, in WinISO there is a menu option called ...
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how to boot debian from partition?
I have downloaded debian iso in sub, then did
$ sudo dd bs=4M if=/Downloads/firmware-10.4.0-i386-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress && sync
But the iso has saved in partition, instead of ...
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SOLVED: Re-bundling the debian-netinst.iso as USB bootable
Following one of the official guides, (https://wiki.debian.org/RepackBootableISO) I've managed unpack and pack a Debian-buster ISO image using the command found in .disk/mkisofs.
What I did was, ...
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Windows 7 home x64 installer cannot boot 0xc000000d
I'd like to temporarily install Windows 7 home on one of my computer for testing. I have Win7_HomePrem_SP1_Hungarian_COEM_x64.iso As far as I remember I downloaded it 3 years ago from Microsoft. I ...
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Creat a bootable ISO file from the command prompt?
I have a bootable flash drive with a WINPE install on it, and I would like to be able to convert said bootable usb to an iso file from a batch or powershell file. I've tried using tools like ...
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Cannot Install OS from Bootable FAT32 Drive
I have put an Ubuntu 18.04.4 disc image on a JetFlash Transcend 1100 8 GB which is formatted as FAT32 with the intent to install it on an ASUS F555L laptop. This USB drive is recognized by the BIOS ...
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Create a bootable USB of Windows PE on linux
How can I create a bootable USB using Windows PE ISO on linux?
Note - Any Windows PE ISO available on web which supports creating a bootable USB from linux will be helpful (please mention the steps ...
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Trouble with booting machines by bootable USB drive of Windows 10 ISO image
I have downloaded Windows 10 ISO image and I'm used dd command on Linux to make a bootable USB drive:
$ sudo dd if=Win10_1903_V2_English_x64.iso of=/dev/sdc
$ sudo sync
I when I try to boot an Asus ...
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Kali Linux - Newly Added Users, Config Changes Not Retaining After Reboot
I have installed kali using oracle virtualbox. I set the root password with the passwd command, then added a user the following:
adduser --home /newusername newusername
It adds the user to the new ...
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DVD DL won't boot on my computer
I burned to a Dual Layer DVD (about 8.5 GB) a Linux Distribution called Manjaro. Not only the OS, I put on DVD some packages with their dependencies.
The way I burned the DVD was:
I extracted Manjaro ...
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How to make bootable flash from ISO with DD?
I have downloaded ALT Linux rescue ISO and wrote it to my flash stick with
sudo dd if=regular-rescue-latest-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sda1
Unfortunately, it doesn't boot on my old computer. I tried USB-HDD,...
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How can I create system image file from a bunch of backup files?
I have a bunch of system backup files, which I need to create a bootable drive or a live image on a flash drive.
I tried to search for all the available post online for creating a system image file, ...
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Bootable USB, looking for more information how it works below the surface
I have an iso file (acronis 2018, if it matters) which I want to deploy on an USB stick. But, I have one specific requirement, I want to deploy the iso file to a partition on the USB device. Tools ...
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