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How to Mount a Bootable Debian SD Card on macOS and Windows?
I'm having trouble mounting a bootable Debian OS on SD Card (32GB) on macOS and Windows. The drive mounts and functions perfectly on my Linux machine, allowing read/write access. However, neither ...
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Install Debian 12 alongside Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11
I have a laptop with a succesfully installed Windows11 and Ubuntu 22.04.
I have 2 nvme ssd disks.
I can start Windows11 or Ubuntu 22.04 via dual boot.
On my first nvme disk (named nvme0n1) have the ...
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How can I get back my grub menu after Windows update?
I have a dual boot installation on my laptop, I have both Debian 12 and Windows 11 installed. I updated Windows 11 yesterday and my laptop boots directly into Windows after the update, no grub menu is ...
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What is loadlin.exe in Debian installation image(.iso) explained for a newbie?
So I opened the Debian .iso image and in a directory "tools" there were loadlin.exe and loadlin.txt. I tried researching but everything was from 2005-ish. What does it do? What happens if I ...
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Is there a name for the text that shows up after executing each command line in a CLI?
for example in linux terminal I have
jurek@debian:~$ man help
No manual entry for help
I want to know how the second line is called
bc I want to ask an other question "How to copy this term (I'm ...
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FreeRDP Black Screen
I'm experiencing difficulty trying to use FreeRDP.
I have Debian 12 (Bookworm) running on my 10.0.0.93 server at home. I did "sudo apt-get install freerdp2-x11" and "sudo apt-get ...
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VitrualBox Guest that uses NAT but gets it's own IP from DHCP and can still see BOTH Host interfaces
i have a Windoze host and a Debian guest. currently i have the guest network setup on a NAT, which allows me to see/use everything i need to on both host interfaces. BUT it is one-way. due to the ...
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How can I install windows 10 on a separate SSD on legacy boot?
I have Debian 11 installed and want to install windows 10 onto the other SSD in my system so I can play windows exclusives, but my Linux installation is in legacy boot, so I know I can't install ...
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Kali + Win 11 dual-boot install mounting issues
So, i'm trying to install Kali alongside Win 11 on my 1TB NVMe drive and I encountered a weird issue, which has never happened to me before:
The Kali installer fails to mount my devices NVMe drive (...
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How to copy from vim in putty on windows (SSHed into a debian)
I am using vim on windows and I would like to copy text from a file. Nothing seems to work, not:
selecting text
ctrl + c
ctrl + shift + c
right click
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wsl throws error when a GUI app is launched
I'm currently in windows 11 (22000.258) i tried running google chrome in wsl (debian distro) it throws me this error "[124:124:1015/185302.103087:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(1400)] Unable to open ...
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How can I change the system name from Linux to Windows in Debian?
I have a good idea for me. So I want to be able to change the system name from Linux to Windows. So, if I views the specific website, that web site should get the my system name as Windows. E.g. Steam ...
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WSL for linux where are files stored
I have been using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and when I create a file in the home directory of WSL, where does it actually exist in file explorer, also, since my C: drive is in /mnt/c/ does ...
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windows 10 installer and debian 10 installer do not recognize SSD
I'm trying to reinstall Windows 10 and Debian 10 on a new Acer Aspire 5 (A515-56G) but I can't. The laptop came with Windows 10 Home ed. x64 already in it and it is working fine.
None of the ...
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Preventing Windows from accessing Linux drives
I currently have two hard disks connected to my computer, one internal and one external(via USB3). The internal one has Windows 10 installed while the external one has Debian. All my important data is ...
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How to prevent people to see my password when I'm tytping it? [closed]
How to prevent people to see my password when I'm tytping it ?
For example, if I type Canage01 and my sister look at me focus on my keyboard when I type it, she saw it.
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How to install Debian if I have another Windows computer but don't want to format a USB stick?
I have a Windows laptop and want to install Debian on another PC. I have a 128GB USB stick I wouldn't like to format. How could I do this?
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VirtualBox error - VM boots, but Windows 10 won't start
I'm trying to run Windows 10 using VirtualBox on a Debian 9 machine. When trying to set up the VM, I couldn't choose the 64-bit version of Windows 10 in the menu, so I downloaded the 32-bit ISO ...
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Setting Debian and Windows [duplicate]
I have Debian. I want to run Windows on the same hard drive, but in separate partitions. I don't want to start my computer "DualBoot" (DualBoot is causing problems for the computer). what should I do? ...
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Windows Subsystem for Linux, runs Linux apps on Windows startup?
I recently installed Debian from the Windows store and installed a package I would like to run when Windows starts. Is this possible? I have tried creating a batch file in the Startup folder that ...
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Why does "wsl" produce different results when using quotes?
Why does the wsl command produce different results when the linux command is wrapped in quotes?
C:\Users\elitebook>wsl "ls /"
/bin/bash: ls /: No such file or directory
C:\Users\elitebook>wsl ...
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How to fix cmake error on payday 2 super blt source in debian buster
I have debian 10 running on a virtual machine inside windows 10.
I have installed build-essential, openssl, libssl-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev, and cmake.
I am trying to have cmake generate a makefile ...
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How to print samba share options?
Considering a standalone samba server. Looks like the number of share options goes over a couple of hundreds, like presented in https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/samba/book/appc.pdf.
The options set ...
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Why is my ip changing in debian
Hello I live in a dorm and I have a laptop with a dualboot setup (Windows and Debian). Now the normal ip is 192.168.2.12 when in windows and in Debian usually too. But if I surf the web on the Debian ...
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OpenVPN: Pushed DHCP & DNS options not working on Windows client
I am running OpenVPN 2.4 on a RaspberryPi with OS Raspbian Stretch (Debian).
My client machine runs Windows 10 Home. Running OpenVPN GUI (with admin privileges).
My OpenVPN server conf file is meant ...
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How to find username of a SSH server running on Debian
I have installed openssh-server on my Debian build of Linux, and now I want to access the SSH server on my windows pc, with FileZilla, but I need to find the username and password of the server, how ...
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WSL - When I'm not in the C: drive, bash takes me to the home directory
I installed WSL with Debian on my Windows 10.
I have a Truecrypt partition mounted on H:
In powershell, if I'm on C: drive and I call bash, I stay in the same directory:
PS C:\> bash
admsrv@...
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How to run debian.iso on Windows using qemu? [duplicate]
I have debian.iso + windows 7 and qemu. I don't know windows absolutely. How can I run debian.iso using qemu? What command I need to use for running debian?
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How to identify partitions in Windows Disk Management
I recently added linux debian to my windows 10 laptop.
I installed the version without firmware, and intend to redo the installation using the firmware inclusive version.
I therefore need to ...
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Creating bootable Debian with Rufus: Unsupported image error
I want to make a bootable Debian flash drive.
Seemed straightforward, something I did before with different distros and specialized tools.
I grabbed the armhf image from here: https://cdimage....
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