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Creating a USB stick for installing centos 6.x using DVD1 and DVD2 iso files
First, we create 2 partitions on the USB stick that
is let's say 16GB.
first partition is let's say only 1GB
and the second partition is the rest of what is available.
after we "w" write the changes,...
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Fetch videos from a Sony Handycam DCR-DVD101 to Linux
I've got a Sony Handycam DCR-DVD101. When I plug connect the USB cable to my laptop (Ubuntu 10) it doesn't mount any storage device.
If I run usb-devices, I see:
T: Bus=02 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=00 ...
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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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Create a bootable Windows 10 USB drive (UEFI) from Linux
How can I create a bootable Windows 10 USB drive from Linux ?
Please note:
WinUSB doesn't work with Windows 10.
UNetbootin doesn't work either.
dd method didn't work as well.
Beside this, I've ...
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USB drive not listed as media device
My multiboot USB drive (that also is used as a normal USB) isn't quite working properly. By this, I mean I can't get a computer to realize that it's a USB flash drive. The closest I've gotten is under ...
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How to automatically mount a removable USB device in a Docker Desktop Linux container
Problem: I want to run a Linux container via Docker Desktop, and have a removable device (e.g. USB stick) automatically mount within the container, when it's inserted.
Up until now, I've been using ...
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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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My SSD is disconecting and reconecting imediatly on USB-C
I'm using Linux Mint on a HP Pavilion 17-cd1119nf.
Recently, i bought a SSD T7 of samsung.
When i plug it on USB-C, it get disconect then imediatly reconect when i'm using it. It can be when i ...
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How to confirm ready state for an external USB disk before attempting other actions
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Before I plug in my external USB backup drive, my computer is fully booted-up, and I am in my session as root. Because of its location, my USB cord is already plugged in, but I ...
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Present a laptop as a keyboard via usb-c to a raspberry pi
I have a laptop (dual boot linux/windows, if this could help, and with both usb-a and -c ports).
I also have a raspberry pi 5 (I just received this starter pack for my 42th birthday).
I don't have a ...
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Trying to create a simple DOS boot USB stick [closed]
Pretty simple request. I'd like to make a bootable USB stick that contains DOS files to let me update the BIOS on an old motherboard.
I know about DOS boot disks from AllBootDisks - https://www....
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IS there a way to find out the Serial, firmware and OS version of a USB device?
I am using the kernel 5.15 based embedded device; have the requirement to figure out the unique field of a USB device, so that I can distinguish when the same vendor, model USB devices(VID,PID are ...
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How to automatically show USB camera or memory stick contents in Icewm?
I normally use a very lightweight Linux setup. No desktop like Gnome or KDE, just Icewm as the windows manager and nothing else that normal users might consider essential. Well, I do need a file ...
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USB became read-only after using dd to flash a Linux ISO
I recently used the dd command to flash a Linux ISO to my USB drive. After doing so, the USB drive has become read-only. I suspect that using dd might have caused this issue, as suggested in this ...
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What exactly does acpi_backlight=vendor do
I have an issue when booting Linux with a device plugged to USB 3.0. If there is anything plugged (USB stick, keyboard, …), the system hangs on start with blank screen and does not react even on SysRq....
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