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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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Making switching between Ubuntu and Windows faster
Do you know a way to make switching between Windows and Linux faster?
I have a dual boot set-up were I am using Ubuntu as a dev environment and that's great l!
But unfortunately I also need Skype for ...
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A cross-platform way to share a USB device over a network?
Our local Hackerspace has this obscure 3D printer that only has Windows drivers. We'd like to avoid running a Windows computer 24 hours a day, but having it plugged in to a Raspberry Pi would be OK. ...
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Linux cannot see other hard drive after dual boot, also want to remove windows if possible
I wanted to switch to Linux and I did this by installing Kali onto my usb and and then booting from my usb. It then went through the process of installing on one of my two SSDs, it then installs fine ...
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How to boot Windows ISO installation using PXE (without Windows AIK or whatever)
I have a Linux PXE server.
Can boot into Linux ISO installers using PXE with no problems.
But how can I do it with Windows ISO? Just start the installation. Without creating some stuff (winpe) under ...
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SCP is not working when running it on linux to Windows machine
We have OpenSsh installed and running on remote windows server. When I connect to it through Remote Desktop and run scp on command prompt it gives all the available options for scp commnad.
but when I ...
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Is there a tool like `script` (Linux/Solaris/etc) for Windows?
Perhaps the worst-named tool in the *nix world, script is extremely handy when you want to capture all the output of a terminal session.
Is there a tool like it for Windows? Specifically, without ...
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Is Windows / Linux Dual Boot a scam? [closed]
I have searched for this topic a bit on the web without any success.
Is Windows Dual boot + Linux way worse than it is imagined ?
Installaed a dual bot linux mint on a windows 11 computer. THe main ...
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Torrenting unbearably slow in Deluge
My Deluge client is consistently getting less than 1.0K/s on all torrents it is downloading
There aren't very many peers on each torrent even though the website says >100 on every torrent... Why is ...
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How to install Farming Simulator 22 on Raspi with Linux?
There is a problem with the processor architecture... I guess that Farming Simulator 22 has x86-commands but the raspi hasn't.
Is there any way to make farming simulator work on Linux?
I have a CD-Rom,...
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Mount SFTP directory in NFS Share
Here's my issue :
I have setup an SFTP with chroot directory is /sftp/usersftp In this chroot directory i have two subdirectory IN/OUT
On the same serveur i had created a user with $HOME=/data/...
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How to create a mounting point to a shared drive from a linux subsystem on a Windows machine?
I have a Windows machine (Windows-10). There I've installed the Ubuntu app from Canonical Group Limited, this allows me to have a Ubuntu subsystem, which I regularly use for grep, sort and other ...
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VirtualBox Installation
Sorry guys if this is a dumb question but I'm trying to learn all of this and am a bit confused.
I have Kali Linux installed as a 'Live" program to a USB stick. I'm looking at using the Oracle ...
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Files and folders on shared drive created on Linux are not visible in Windows (dual-boot)
I have a dual-boot with Linux (Manjaro) and Windows installed on two separate SSDs, plus I have a shared ex-fat HDD which contains documents and the like.
Problem is, very often, when I'm on Linux and ...
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Use the Windows PC as a middleware to access the restricted site
Assume my Windows PC has the ability to access the restricted.com site via a network adapter that only supports Windows. I want my other Linux PC to be able to access that site as well, but because ...
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Installing Linux without disabling Bitlocker encryption
Is there a way to install and dual boot Ubuntu / Fedora along with Windows 11 without disabling bitlocker encryption?
Possible approach
The other solution for continuing to use Bitlocker extending ...
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Windows installer not detecting drives on dualbooted system
I'm running Windows 11 with Fedora dual booted, or atleast I was, until one day Windows started throwing "Inaccessible Boot Device". To fix that, I'm trying to reinstall Windows without ...
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How to setup fonts in Linux subsystem?
I'm trying to use the Linux subsystem for windows (a bit of an adventure for me not knowing Linux). I've installed starship.rs and noticed I've got a number of badly rendering symbols. I've read that ...
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Add Linux EFI (like grub) as Windows boot entry
I primarily use Windows for everything, but for coding I want to use a dual booted Linux OS. If I keep using grub as the default bootloader, then the startup time for Windows is drastically affected. ...
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Windows PowerShell - How to switch back to a suspended SSH connection
I've established a SSH connection to my LAN laptop running Ubuntu Server from my desktop running Windows 10 using PowerShell 7. I've ran some tasks, then suspended the session with Ctrl+Z. I know that ...
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Cygwin weird behavior on security permissions
I'm using Cygwin to run periodic backups, for example I do:
cp -a "$(cygpath C:\Users\S\Documents)" "$BU_FOLDER"
But I've noticed the commands that create folders or files such as ...
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Dual boot | Dual drives: Linux over Windows
Preface: This is/was an attempt at creating a dual boot laptop (Asus), primary drive is housed on the motherboard sda has Linux Mint installed, secondary drive sdb has Windows 10 installed and plugs ...
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is there a way to do something like a KVM but between OS on the same computer?
I need Windows to play games and modify them. Simply using Linux compatibility isn't enough.
However I'm starting to hate Windows because I cannot know or control all the information it sends, and who ...
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Unable to establish SSL connection (Windows)
I am trying to run the following command in Command Prompt on Windows, using GNU Wget 1.11.4:
wget -A pdf -m -p -E -k -K -nd https://www.ceratizit.com/
but I keep getting the following error:
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Fix EFI/Microsoft in Windows 11 using Linux [closed]
I destroyed EFI/Microsoft. and Recovery Media doesn't work either. Are there any suggestions for fixing EFI/Microsoft in Linux based OS. My Windows version 11. I was going to install refind but ...
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Installing NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPU hangs on Windows 10 on Proxmox using GPU pass-through
I’m installing an NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPU in a Proxmox virtual environment using GPU pass-through. The virtual is Windows 10 Pro. GPU card is plugged on HP Z640 Tower Server - Intel Xeon E5-2670 V3. I'm ...
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Windows found problems with the file system that could not be corrected?
I have a NTFS formatted USB drive that I use both with Linux and Windows 11 and it normally works OK. Recently Linux gave me a rather dire sounding error:
zog@kb:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc2 ~/Templates/
[...
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Windows equivalent of SSH
I don't know Windows very well and only vaguely know my way around the Command Prompt.
Is there an equivalent to SSHing into another Windows computer via cmd? Equivalents to SCP and other Linux ...
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Measure bandwidth between two computer in a LAN
Is there any way to measure precisely bandwidth between two computers in a LAN?
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What is the Windows analog of the Linux watch command?
I'm looking for a Windows program/script/command line function that works like Linux's watch program.
watch periodically calls another program/whatever and shows the result, which is great for ...
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How to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?
I have cloned a WSL distro using wsl --export and wsl --import, but now, running wsl newdistro always logs me in as root. I understand that the lxrun command is deprecated and want to avoid it. The ...
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How to check to see if a VPN is working correctly?
How to make sure, that all traffic (e.g. from web browser) is passing through VPN and no data is leaking through normal internet interface? Or how to check, what interface (VPN or other) is used by ...
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How to show the tree of a root folder only for the first child level, and then show for just one of the children the second child level as well
Setting down a guide about a repository, it should help the reader to look through folders and files in only that sub-folder which makes the core of the task at hand, and without any sub-sub-folders. ...
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Is there a Windows equivalent of Linux `.desktop` file to execute various commands (like as many custom "apps")
I am using Windows in parallel with Linux again, and I've got all the Linux habits and reflexes, without which I feel very frustrated.
For example, how to create a file to launch a terminal with a ...
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Remove all attributes/properties of mkv movies
I have too many movies in some hierarchical data structure starting from a directory. I need to remove all their attribute/properties, because some of them have wrong information, and honestly I don't ...
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Asus netbook (Windows 10) *will not* boot from USB drive
I am trying to install Linux on my Asus X205T netbook from a USB drive. Recently I used the same drive to install Ubuntu on a relative's laptop.
I formatted the USB drive on my Macbook Pro using ...
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