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How to boot the system from my build kernel on VM?

I am running Ubuntu on Windows 7 using Virtual machine without any problems and even able to build kernel on it. Now I want to know how to boot my kernel on Ubuntu using virtual machine which is ...
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How can I add autocomplete for “gem which” with rbenv?

I am using rbenv on Mac OS X. I have autocomplete functionality already for the gem command: $ gem build environment lock query stale cert fetch ...
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How do you check the support for a specific CPU in the Linux or BSD kernel?

Assuming that I have the sources for my kernel and I know the name of a SoC or a CPU, how I can check that the hardware is supported without compiling and running ?
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mkfsdos: define the size of FAT16|32 file system on USB pendrive in Linux

Question: How does one define the size of a FAT16 / FAT 32 file system with mkdosfs in Linux I want to create a, say 2 GB FAT16|32 filesystem on a partition in the size of 8 GB or more? This is how ...
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Dump process's stdin and stdout

I have two processes, let's say Parent and Child. Parent launches the Child and communicates with it through child's stdin and stdout. Parent <-> Child These processes use text protocol and I ...
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Dunst notifier on CentOS

I need a notifier such that: It is possible to send messages from one machine to another without any password (like in case of notify-send). Correct me if I'm wrong. It is such that only when a user ...
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How to get a list of images in a a prticular folder?

My folder contains 5 -6 images, I want to display a list of the names of all images only. However the folder contains two text files.
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How to parallelize the for loop while scp the files?

I am running my below shell script from machineA which is copying the files machineB and machineC into machineA. If the files are not there in machineB, then it should be there in machineC. The below ...
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ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host while copying the files?

I am running my shell script from machineA which will copy the files from machineB and machineC. if the files are not there in machineB, then it will be there in machineC for sure.. So somehow ...
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Download package via apt for another architecture

I am currently in a architecture amd64, so when I try apt-get download vlc, it downloaded the appropriate architecture for my system, but how can I download the i386 version via apt? It's for ...
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File inheriting permission of directory it is copied in?

I have files created into my home directory with only user read permission (r-- --- ---). I want to copy this file to another directory /etc/test/ which has the folder permission of 744 (rwx r-- r--). ...
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Differences between %pre and %post in Kickstart on CentOS?

I have been setting up machines with Kickstart on CentOS and I am unsure about the differences between the %pre and %post sections of the kickstart .cfg file. The CentOS Documentation for the ...
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How to check Linux kernel?

I want to install a package and it has different versions for different OS. The description in the package site is like this X86-64 Linux 3.0 Kernel I looked it up and found people saying to use ...
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Dual-boot Ubuntu cannot access the Windows drive that it was installed on with wubi

I had Widonws with two drives C: and D:. In the drive C:, I have my Windows. In the drive D:, I had my all other files and data. I installed Ubuntu in the drive D:, without deleting any data from it. ...
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TTY not work after X starts

I have a HP Envy4 5306tx laptop with Intel+Nvidia dual cards, and I install fedora 19 X64 on it without NVidia proprietory driver. However, there are some problems about the X and TTY。 The TTYs are ...

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