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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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How to fix dual boot Ubuntu/Win 10
I installed Ubuntu along Windows 10 on my Acer PC.
When I first inserted USB into the pc, I couldn't change the boot order and boot from it before I changed BIOS into legacy from UEFI. In Legacy ...
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How to solve blue screen issue coming even after using a USB media?
I have an HP-i3-7th bought in 2018. I had dual booted it 4 years ago with Win default and Ubuntu secondary. A year ago it started malfunctioning because the boot would not work properly. If Ubuntu is ...
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Make internal card reader readable to BIOS
I have a tablet that only has one USB port and one internal microSD card reader. It runs Windows 8 but I want to install Ubuntu on it.
I've created an Ubuntu install disk using startup disk creator on ...
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How can I make this keyboard work in GRUB 2?
I'm using Windows 10 Home parallel with Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) on a Lenovo IdeaPad S400. Every time the GRUB bootloader appears, I'm not able to select the operating system, because the keyboard ...
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How to boot a USB to reinstall windows when I have ubuntu installed?
My ubuntu system is basically useless now because it always says the error "Errors were found while checking the disk drive for /". I can't do anything with it because of that. :( and I want to go ...
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How to boot an HP XW8000 from a USB flash drive?
I have an old XW8000 machine that I’ve been trying and failing boot from USB flash drive for the last week.
I’ve tried burning Ubuntu 6.0, 8.0, 14.0, 22.04 on USB media using PowerIso and BalenaEtcher ...
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How to install full linux to a usb drive like unetbootin
I have recently looked into linux as my mac is currently at 10.12 and I need to run newer apps but currently cannot get a new computer. I have decided to move to linux but I don't want to touch the ...
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Installing windows 10 on blank thinkpad
i am helping a freind install windows on their thinkpad using a usb stick i went into the bios and put usb on the top of the boot oreder turned it on and lo and behold ubuntu booted so i went back to ...
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Unable to boot Ubuntu from an external SSD
I installed Ubuntu 22.10 in an USB flash drive and it boots perfectly fine. Then I cloned this drive to an SSD on Windows using MiniTool Partition Wizard (full disk clone, not specific partitions). ...
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Is it possible to, and if so, how can I, boot a USB-sticked copy of Linux on this Chinese-made ARM machine?
I recently acquired a quite nice Chinese ARM computer board, the ITX-3588J from Firefly (aka. T-Chip) and with core processor made by RockChip. By itself, the board is an integrated single-board ...
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BIOS refuses to let me select USB to boot from
I'm trying to install Linux (which I've done many times before), but whenever I try to select the USB from the boot-menu, the screen just flashes and it moves my selector to the windows boot. If I ...
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BIOS won't recognize my USB.
Here's my situation: Couple months ago I installed Ubuntu and now I want to install Windows 7 on my computer (for nostalgia's sake). Problem is the Bios won't recognize my USB stick so there's no way ...
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Remove ubuntu and download kali linux
I'm trying to remove ubuntu and download kali from an old pc I have. I've downloaded the image and burnt a usb using ubuntu startup disk creator. I've used this link to get the iso. When I plug in the ...
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Can’t boot from USB on Windows tablet
I have a Windows tablet ZTE W105 that I want to install Linux on. The tablet finds the USB stick but when I boot from it nothing happens, it just restarts and returns to Windows. I have tried changing ...
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