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How to boot a Linux live USB on a Mac?
I have a USB stick with a Fedora 11 live environment on it.
It's booting fine on 3 PCs where I've tried it.
But I can't get it to boot on a Mac (Intel). When pressing the alt key (or command key, I ...
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How to install external USB Wi-Fi adapter driver in Kali Linux
I am using Kali Linux on my laptop and my laptop's internal Wi-Fi adapter is not working, so I have an external USB adapter. Now after the installation I plug my Wi-Fi adapter and Linux is not showing ...
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What's the difference between EFI booting a USB versus a hard disk?
Can you please tell me the difference between EFI booting a USB and EFI booting a hard drive, as wheen installing a Linux image on the USB using Rufus, it's booting, but when the same image is ...
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My USB flash drive is corrupt and I can't format or mount it [duplicate]
The USB flash drive is a DataTraveler 104 32GB. I used to use it, but it has stopped working.
If you plug it in on Windows, it freezes the disk management and the file explorer.
On Debian, disks show ...
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Unable to install Fedora 23 as UEFI
I Downloaded Fedora 23 workstation and created Live USB using these methods.
using command # dd if=Fedora-Live-----.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4m &&
sync.
Using Fedora Live USB tool.
using Rawrite32 ...
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USB with Kali Linux 2024.1 (not live) installed not visible in boot menu
Specifications:
Laptop: Lenovo Legion Pro 5i (Gen 8)
CPU: i9 (13th Gen)
GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060
USB B is a SanDisk Ultra Luxe (128GB)
For context:
Secure boot is off.
USB ports are working ...
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How to prevent specific USB device (vendorId:ProductId) from having driver loaded
I am trying to setup Debian Linux host with KVM (libvirt) virtual machines. Host has some USB devices attached to it and I would like to pass-through one of them to the guest virtual machine. To do so ...
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Why is Macbook Pro 2019 with Intel & T2 NOT recognizing live USB for dual booting Linux using T2Linux ISO image?
Macbook Pro 2019 is NOT recognizing live USB for dual booting linux using https://t2linux.org ISO image
If I use 'Option' key, it will just show the single option, Macintosh HD and boot into MacOS
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How can I sniff a USB connection between a PC and a Thermal printer?
I need to develop a hardware and software solution to intercept the communications between a PC - Thermal receipt printer. The protocol between these two is USB, but i don't have any idea of where to ...
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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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How to wait for a USB flash drive to be mounted/present before running .services file (systemd)?
I'm making a marquee with a Raspberry Pi where the images for the marquee are on a USB stick and the Python file that is the marquee is on the Raspberry Pi itself (RPi Zero W running Raspbian). I'm ...
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fdisk doesn't complete and hangs on a USB drive
fdisk problem.
OS: linux centos 7
I used fdisk on a usb drive. It has hung and I haven't been able to kill it or get out of it.
As an additional problem, since then, in trying to remedy this ...
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ASUS USB wifi driver in Linux - AC53 nano - EW-7811Un - Realtek RTL8188CUS
I have an ASUS AC53 Nano wifi receiver that I'm trying to get working on Solus Linux. Here's some basic info:
$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n ...
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Linux: connecting to a USB virtual com port without root access?
I am trying to connect a microcontroller to a host computer using a USB virtual com port. However, I do not have root privileges on the host computer. The controller shows up as /dev/ttyACM0.
When I ...
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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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