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Strange hard disc install behavior with Linux
I have booted Linux mint cinnamon 64bit from usb stick - no problems very stable and works very well on my machine. I then installed to the hard disk a 1TB SATA disk suitably partitioned and ...
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Fedora: Create windows 8.1 bootable USB
I tried everything and nothing works I have 2 brand new USB keys 3 more packaged. I have 3 valid Windows 8.1 ISO files and yet no approach works.
I tried Unetbootin takes forever to copy 4.3GB to ...
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Making a bootable USB for Windows
I can't make a bootable USB for a Windows distribution (XP, 7 8) with a iso image from Linux terminal. I tries with dd but it worked only for Linux distributions. I also tried to make the flash drive ...
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How can I create a CD or USB key that fully restores a Linux install? (a la the CDs that come with Windows boxen)
Whenever I assemble and configure a Linux PC for someone, I always run into the problem of what happens if they want to restore their system back to the way it was when they got it. Either they ...
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Need advice with making a customized linux distribution (From scratch or pre-existing distro?)
I'm working on an application on a bootable USB drive that runs at startup (doesn't give the user access to anything but this program). I figured I'd utilize an existing distribution, strip it of ...
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How does a boot USB treat a deleted file?
I created a Linux LiveUSB from xubuntu. I boot into it, and understand that it’s running in RAM. My question is, let’s say I created a folder on the Xubuntu desktop (not the C: drive or an external ...
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How do you create a persistent Ubuntu USB on a Mac that will boot to a Mac or PC
Hello I have actually successfully created a Ubuntu USB using unetbootin, however it is not persistent and will not boot on a mac. If anyone has any suggestions for a different application for ...
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Create a bootable program/iso
I want to program my own bootable USB Stick, that means creating an iso which I can "burn" to my USB stick via unetinboot. I know there are many lightweight linux distros out there, but I just need to ...
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Multibootable USB with windows, linux and iso
I want to create a multibootable usb, that will contain some linux distros, some windows ones as well as some non-OS iso(such as Hiren's boot DVD, Parted Magic bootble CD etc).
As far as multi-...
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eeePC shows only two entries while using Unetbootin created Live CD, and both fails
I made a usb boot stick using Unetbootin, on mac osx (the latest one).
I created the stick (after formatting it), and then plug it into my EEE PC X101CH
the bios boot menu shows 2 options for the ...
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Can't boot from USB to install Linux
Now I have Win7 on my laptop, and I want to install Linux. I downloaded the latest Ubuntu 13.04 32-bit (and also Mint 15 32-bit), and installed it on my flash drive using the Universal USB Installer – ...
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"BOOTMGR is missing" while trying to boot off usb
everyone.
here's the problem:
I made a bootable USB stick to boot Linux mint using Unetbootin.
When I tried to boot off it, though, the following message came:
BOOTMGR is missing.
press CTRL-ALT-...
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Trying to boot Kali Linux from USB on Mid 2010 macbook pro
I created a Kali Linux Live USB (MBR with compatibility for both BIOS+EFI) and created an /EFI/BOOT directory on the USB's root directory, with the file bootx64.efi in it. However, when I tried to ...
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No GUI when Booting in UEFI From USB Flash
I'm trying to dual boot my new Acer V5-122p with the pre-installed Windows 8 and Linux Mint 15 Mate. The laptop doesn't have a DVD drive, so I have to boot through USB. When I boot Mint in UEFI mode, ...
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No external installation mediums possible, can I boot this kernel through loadlin? [closed]
For this task some bootable USB stick drives are available, but the CD drive is broken without near chances to get a new, so can not cdimage burn and boot. Machine (Dell Latitude C400) does not seem ...