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Mount old MS-DOS .img on Linux

Is there a way to mount an old .img file that's most likely a copy of a CD-ROM made for MS-DOS on Linux? All attempts have failed yet. file sees it just as "data", fdisk -l only says 646,75 ...
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Windows 10: how to prevent File Explorer from opening .IMG files?

Dear fellow Windows warriors, I've stumbled across an interesting problem. A user in fairly pristine Windows 10 has received a suspicious file by e-mail, and due to momentary lack of concentration, ...
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How do I extract images from an unknown file? (might be an .SO)

I have a file taken from an apk of an old videogame made for an old android phone. It has no file extension and is simply titled "images". MediaFire reads it as an .SO file, but I don't know ...
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Is there windows a utility that can write/read/create and manage image files like IMG, ISO, etc? [closed]

I am wondering if there is a utility for windows that can write/read/create and manage image files? E.G. Trying to write a custom bootsector for a floppy img file Thanks in advance! EDIT: PowerISO is ...
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To boot Ubuntu Linux from .img file

I have installed Ubuntu Linux on an .img file which contains gpt partition table with just single partition. I have not created boot partition but it just has root partition which is having ext4 ...
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Running pi-top OS Polaris on a Virtual Machine

I am trying to run the OS found on the Pi-Top in VirtualBox (the OS can be downloaded here https://www.pi-top.com/products/os). However, said OS is available only in a .zip format, which then unpacks ...
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Why does unxz return this invalid argument error?

I'm using the command unxz on Linux (Ubuntu) to convert an .img.xz file to just an .img file. The command I'm entering is as follows: unxz kali-2017.01-rpi2.img.xz But it just returns this error: ...
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How to shrink img images (resize to actually used space) on windows

I created an ISO image of a bootable USB stick with a size of 32 GB. Only approximatly 4 GB of the 32 GB were used. The created iso size seems to use the full 32 GB not only the 4 GB. Is there a ...
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Is it possible to block images from a specific URL using the “hosts” file?

I want to block images in a website which is often unimportant ads uploaded to their server or host. Using inspect element I noticed the all these images was named with ad-[some number].jpg. I can’t ...
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Create a tar.gz from an image file (Linux or Mac) [closed]

Hi I have an img of a custom linux distro and I would like to convert it to a tar.gz file. (I am using Mac or Linux OS) What is the most straight forward way to do it? Thank you
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Convert file from .img to .bin

I need to convert an img file to a bin one.I have tried with power iso but nothing.I also used any burn but it gives me an error.How can I convert the file?
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Convert .vhd to .img on windows?

I have a .vhd virtual hard disk. I need to convert it to .img disk image. How can I do it? I have Windows 7 and VirtualBox at my disposal, can those tools help?
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How do I resize a partition on an img file?

I have a puppy linux img that is 8gb but I need it to fit on a 6gb drive. How do I resize the ext2 partition on the img?
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Sync .IMG To Dropbox Without Reuploading Entire File When Changes Are Made?

I have an issue, which is that when I try to sync an .img file to Dropbox on Android (via DropSync app), the entire file is reuploaded when even a single byte is changed. This doesn't happen with ...
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Open .img file to mod a software

I'd like to open .img files which I suppose to be pictures (there are many .img in a subfolder of this program: lobby.img, avatars.img, cards.img etc). I wanted to change a background in this ...
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Edit bootable img file on Mac OS X

I have downloaded a bootable image of Ubuntu (7.95Gb .img file) for a Parallella (minicomputer), but its too big to fit on my 8GB micro sd card (which actually is only 7.8 GB!). I would like to ...
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Weeding out invalid html code with regex

I need a pcre regex that will select all html img tags without a src part. Long story. With help I got to (?-s)<img(?!.*?src).*?\/> which worked fine until a line got a second img tag WITH src ...
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How to resize img file created with dd?

I have a DD image from a 4GB SD card that has two partitions, these two partitions are only using up about 800 MB and as such I wish to reduce the size of the img fie. Does anyone know of a way to ...
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Reading a disk image without extension

I have three files that are supposed to be disks image with a .img extension. However, when I look at their properties, Windows says that it's just a file, without any extension. I tried to manually ...
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Modifying the install environment for RH-like installations

I am trying to modify the basic installation environment (ie, what Anaconda runs in) for a customized CentOS distribution. For the first try, I would just like to modify a few of the splash images. ...
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Do you need to format a flash drive before dd an image to it?

Does dd or Windows Image Writer work regardless whether the target device was formatted or partitioned correctly? I'm trying to flash a Chromium OS build to a USB flash drive following these ...
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How to convert a specific partition in a .vdi file to .img?

VBoxManage converts the whole disk to .img. But I want to write only one partition in the vdi image to a partition on my physical disk.
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How do I install Ubuntu on an Intel iMac with no OS nor CD drive

What I want: Linux on an Intel iMac (Core Duo). What I have: An empty PC (17" Intel iMac) with broken CD drive. It's model A1173. This PC with Ubuntu 12.04 and an old Windows Vista partition. a ...
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How are Disk Images Written? [closed]

How are disk images such as iso, img, and dmg written? For example, if I make a file with no extension with some text in it and put it in a disk image, how does it get incorporated, with what kind of ...
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How to burn an .img file under Linux?

I have an .img file, where file reports this: Files-11 On-Disk Structure Level 2 (ODS-2 OpenVMS file system) How do I burn that onto CD? The image is 621MB in size, so it should fit on a CD just ...
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Creating an image of my hard drive

I've been thinking of making an image of my laptop's hard drive for backup purposes. What would be the best way of doing this? I know about dd but is there a more user-friendly way, perhaps a GUI ...
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Converting an IMA file to an IMG file

In a moment of extreme geekism, I've decided to install Windows 3.11 in Virtual Box. However, VirtualBox only accepts IMG files for floppy disks, and I've only been able to download IMA images of ...
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