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Manually cloning a Live USB Arch distro to a VMware virtual disk
I installed Arch Linux on a pen drive with yumi, based on syslinux. I would like to test the USB distro in VMware.
To speed up things I would like to clone the UFD as a VMware virtual disk (vmdk).
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Deploying filesystem images onto a partition of arbitrary size
I would like to establish a deployment process for Ubuntu machines based on root FS images. I would like to restore the image onto a simply-formatted hard drive (I can completely erase the disk during ...
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Move and empty /home partition of Ubuntu
My partitions are:
Ubuntu's / on /dev/sda1
Ubuntu's /home on /dev/sda6/
Crunchbang's / on dev/sda7
Now I want to install Backtrack, but for this I need to get rid of Ubuntu's /home and move its ...
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Boot SystemRescueCd using UEFI?
How would you boot SystemRescueCd if you don't have the option to use the legacy-bios? I have the new UEFI and I have no luck booting SystemRescueCd(with a USB stick). I am planning to back up my ...
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Can't boot after installing FreeBSD in VMware Workstation
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.1-i386 in VMware Workstation.
I'm following the guide in the manual on freebsd.org to do this.
When I come to the partitioning part I use the guided setting and it ...
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How to boot into FreeBSD installed in the second partition of an external drive
I have installed FreeBSD 9.1 on the second partition of an external hard disk and I'm not able to get my computer to boot from it. FreeBSD was installed using the FreeBSD memstick image dd'd onto a ...
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Why does my Pandaboard boot partition need to be vfat, and the rootfs need to be ext3 or ext4?
While booting Android on a Pandaboard, I am partitioning the SD card into two partitions, boot and root. They contain different filesystems. Why does the boot partition need to be vfat, while the ...
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Boot disk unavailable
Background
I've got one 32GB SSD that I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on (this drive is encrypted), and two 1.5TB drives that will serve as storage and backup respectively. I have formated both drives ...
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Linux Mint freezes on startup
Premise
I am running Linux Mint on my sister's computer. Everything was working fine, but than one day she turned it on and she got a strange message she didn't understand. I think it was some kind ...
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I deleted the /boot server is still running is reinstall necessary?
This is stupid. I ordered 2SSD from a provicer. Usually I am the one doing the partitioning and formatting. I will then know which one is the SSD by looking at disks that's not partitioned yet.
Turns ...
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1answer
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Failed to boot Grub Error Fedora 17
I had two hard disks. One is internal, 320GB, all NTFS, where Windows 7 is installed in a ~20GB partition. The other is external, 160GB, where I have installed Fedora. Now when I had installed Fedora ...
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Why does X11 on Fedora 16 rely on non-boot device for startup?
I have recently had an incident in which my /var/mail/spool/ file grew to the size of 32G (yes, that is gigabytes), completely filling its system partition (/dev/sda2) and most of what I saw inside ...
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2answers
872 views
Format disk through rootfs terminal
I've got into a strange situation (because of my own stupidity of course:-)). I kept failing to install Chakra Linux from Live USB, so I was thinking that the reason could be that I created the Live ...
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4answers
745 views
Difference between bootable and non-bootable partitions
What is the difference between a bootable and non-bootable partition? I know that a user cannot boot a system from a partition marked non-bootable and can from one marked bootable.
I want to know ...
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Fresh Linux (Debian and CentOS) installation will not boot
I am trying to install either Debian or CentOS on a home server (Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX100 S3). I first tried installing Debian. The whole installation was successful (including grub). But after ...
