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How to restrict root access to other users/partitions
Setup:
Laptop dual boot Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 10 or 11 (both are fine for me).
I have the issue where I need to install some anti-virus software as root on Ubuntu. However this software is really ...
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Not able to boot from Windows USB on Ubuntu
I'm trying to install Windows 10 on a laptop running Ubuntu.
But the problem is, it's not booting from the USB.
Details:
Tried formatting USB drive as FAT and NTFS.
It get's detected in BIOS menu, so ...
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Stuck in emergency mode (Ubuntu) after Windows 10 reinstall
After reinstalling Windows 10, I am now unable to boot into Ubuntu 22.04.
The message displayed right after the boot failure is the following:
Right afterwards, I entered maintenance mode and typed ...
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Creating shared folder between two Windows Subsystem for Linux
I discovered today that I have two WSL installed on my computer (Windows 10): one for Ubuntu 18.01 (will call it WSL 18.01) and one for Ubuntu 20.04 (WSL 20.04). WSL 18.04 is the only one I have used ...
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Editing files in a Windows Subsystem for Linux development environment
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) works pretty well for making most commandline Linux tools available and working on Windows without modification. However, it gets a little tricky for development, ...
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Can’t boot from USB on Windows tablet
I have a Windows tablet ZTE W105 that I want to install Linux on. The tablet finds the USB stick but when I boot from it nothing happens, it just restarts and returns to Windows. I have tried changing ...
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How to recover folder overwritten by `mv` command in ubuntu
How to recover folder overwritten by mv command in Ubuntu-20.04 on wsl2?
I was moving two folders, folderA and folderB from current directory to dest.
Here is what I did:
mv folderA ./dest/folderA
mv ...
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Install Windows 10 after Ubuntu 19.10 on a secondary HDD
This is my primary SSD which has Ubuntu 19.10 installed.
SSD_Ubuntu
This is my secondary HDD which has 500 GB allocated to Kali(/dev/sda2) and two ext4 partitions /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5
HDD
I'd ...
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WSL2 GUI not working
I am trying to get GUIs working with WSL2, but nothing I tried works.
I turned off the Firewall for home networks (just for testing).
I started Vcxsrv with the following options: Multiple Windows, ...
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Windows Partition Not Bootable
I have Linux installed on a different partition on my drive than windows. Me, being really stupid, I run sudo rm -rf /*(I wanted to delete the contents of a folder obviously, not all the contents of ...
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Dual booting linux and windows on 2 hard drives
first I wanna say that I’m new to both linux and dual booting so mistakes can be made while I’m trying to explain this.
My situation is the following.
I’ve always have been a windows user, I did ...
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Cannot flash SD Card within Guest OS - VirtualBox
Background:
Host OS: Windows 10 Professional
Guest OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Host OS:
I am able to add files, edit files and add folders.
Verified that SD card is read and write card
Guest OS:
I am able to ...
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How to get back windows 10 boot loader after uninstalling ubuntu
I installed Ubuntu a few months ago now I had to uninstall it die to some reason but I forgot to install windows boot loader and restarted the pc. It is showing a black screen how to boot again with ...
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Hyper-V Generic Failure + Ubuntu error 0x8007023e on Windows 10 Pro
I've been experiencing some problems with running Ubuntu 20.04 as a distribution of Windows Subsystem on Linux. I want to run it as a virtual machine on Hyper-V. I'm rather new to this, so I'm not ...
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Decrease partition size for ubuntu dual boot
I have windows 10 and ubuntu 20.04 dual booted and I don't use ubuntu much. I gave ubuntu a lot of space which I can use for windows. Now I want to reduce the size of the partition😐. I have ...
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