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exporting a virtualbox VDI to a harddrive to boot it natively
I have a VirtualBox 3.1.2 image of Debian 5.0.2 running on Windows XP SP3. I would like to export that Debian image to a USB harddrive such that I could boot to that drive and run it natively. Is that ...
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How to convert an existing Windows machine to VirtualBox? [duplicate]
I have VirtualBox installed on my Linux machine (Debian). I need to move a physical Windows 7 machine into my VirtualBox.
How to convert a physical Windows OS to VirtualBox?
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Trying to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Jessie
I've been trying for a month now to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Jessie now. I thought it was about time I asked for help as I'm becoming a little crazy.
I've tried following a lot of tutorials, ...
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Synergy 1.4.14 fails with "Protocol error"
Server: Debian testing, with the 1.4.14 deb downloaded and installed.
Client: Windows 7, with 1.4.14 downloaded and installed.
Both are Premium.
On Debian, start the server with synergys -f -c ...
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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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dual booted pc: windows 7 clock becomes wrong after booting linux
I have dual booted pc, i always do that, this time though, i have installed crunchbang, after booting linux, windows 7 clock becomes wrong, it goes back 3 hours.
i tried to fix it and it stays fixed ...
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How to copy file from Windows laptop to Linux remote virtual server
There are already quite a few topics on this issue here on SuperUser. However, I have spent the last 3 hours trying all of them, but am unable to fix this.
I am trying to copy a file from my laptop ...
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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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apt-offline on Windows
Following this tutorial, I don't know how to reproduce step 2 on a windows machine:
apt-offline get C:\apt-offline.sig --threads 5
How do I install apt-offline on a Windows machine so I can run this ...
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Is it possible to install Debian within a Windows filesystem in the same manner as Ubuntu can be installed with Wubi?
I have a Windows 7 laptop whose hard drive has four primary partitions out of the box.
The first partition is labeled "SYSTEM" (209 MB NTFS) and seems to contain the Windows boot loader.
The second ...
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How to troubleshoot CIFS error -13 (Permission Denied)?
I am trying to mount a share (D$) from Debian (running inside Hyper-V) on my Windows 8 computer, using the following command:
sudo mount -v -t cifs //192.168.99.1/D$ /media/d -ocredentials=/home/emi....
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Cannot install Windows 7 and Debian 6.0.5 at the same time
After replacing my old HDD in notebook with new one (Momentum XT 500GB if it matters) I tried to install dual-boot: Windows 7 64-bit and Debian 6.0.5.
I tried to start with Windows, but after ...
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Windows installed on second partition, how to add it to boot menu?
I'm using Debian 6.0.6 Squeeze at the moment, I installed it over Windows XP.
It's just one hard drive where I first installed Windows XP and than used some Windows tool to make partition where I ...
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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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A Windows DLL stored on Debian, then downloaded back to Windows won’t work anymore
I have a program which I want to distribute through my webserver running Debian.
So I uploaded my files—containing DLLs—to the server. After I did let them download through my updating application I ...
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