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Clonezilla verify image fails

I have a HP Pavillion dv4 laptop that is in the process of eating its (second) hard drive due to heat issues (have since gotten it a thermal cooler pad). I purchased a 1.5TB external usb drive to ...
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Using wine for .bat file

I am trying to use Windows Subsystem for Android on Wine but a version with Magisk built into it. In the documentation it requires you to: Extract the .7z archive using 7-zip (recommended) and rename ...
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How to use built-in OpenVPN client on ASUS RT-AC66U router?

I have a Linux with OpenVPN server installed and when I connect to it from my PC over OpenVPN client everything works just fine. So, all parts are in place. Now I tried to use built-in OpenVPN client ...
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How to install VPN on Linux Debian so that it could be used by built-in Windows 10 client?

What is nowadays recommended solution to setup VPN server on Linux Debian (Linux Wonderland 4.19.0-25-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.289-2 (2023-08-08) x86_64) so that I could use it with Windows 10 built-...
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copy text from WSL to windows clipboard

I set up tmux in WSL and I want to improve the integration between them. How to select text in tmux inside of WSL and copy it to the Windows clipboard?
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Is it possible to use a partition for a paging file across multiple Unix distros and a Windows partition?

I have a Unix distro that has its own paging file, but I want to switch over to a partition so that it can be utilized by all three systems.
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Grub doesn't show OS selection menu when booting a dual boot setup

I have installed windows and Linux(ubuntu) on the same machine. Now the problem is when I start my machine, It goes directly to Linux and does not ask me for the selection of OS either I want to load ...
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Fix a HDD that got bricked due to reboot during formatting

Someone gave me a 1TB Western Digital WD10SPZX HDD that got bricked due to a reboot during formatting. The formatting was being done using Windows File Explorer. Western Digital Dashboard no longer ...
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Running commands remotely through an RDP connection

This question is a follow up of this one. I am trying to run a command through the command line on a remote machine running Windows 7 from a workstation running Debian in an SSH session on that ...
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What is loadlin.exe in Debian installation image(.iso) explained for a newbie?

So I opened the Debian .iso image and in a directory "tools" there were loadlin.exe and loadlin.txt. I tried researching but everything was from 2005-ish. What does it do? What happens if I ...
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Network cable not working - dual boot Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10

I have dual boot (Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10) installed on my laptop. I found out, that when I shut down Ubuntu and run Windows then often happens that network cable stops working. I usually restart ...
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Enter Bios/UEFI from desktop shortcut

I am currently dual booting windows and linux, i dont want to use grub because grub tends to get very flakey the longer things go on. IS there a way for me to create a desktop shortcut in linux to ...
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Aspire V5-531 Operating System Not Found

I recently purchased an Acer Aspire V5-531. I replaced the 320GB HDD with a 120GB Kingston SSDNow V200 and installed Linux booting with rEFInd. Due to a necessary change, I have to move back to ...
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VBoxManage gives error importing appliance

I was following along in a RHCSA labs course and ran into the following error I can not seem to get past. I know someone else who successfully ran through the installation so I am curious what is ...
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Is there a name for the text that shows up after executing each command line in a CLI?

for example in linux terminal I have jurek@debian:~$ man help No manual entry for help I want to know how the second line is called bc I want to ask an other question "How to copy this term (I'm ...

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