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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

[start of edit 1] 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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How to reach the maximum bandwidth on many USB drives?

I have many (~60 at now) external USB drives which I need to occasionally, but regularly, connect to one Linux workstation because I need to run a sanity check program on data saved on them. I don't ...
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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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