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How to install FreeDos onto a USB stick?
Unfortunately the current information on the FreeDOS Wiki is not up to date, but with the help from FreeDos Developer Jim Hall I could find the solution:
Download the USB “Full” installer from the ...
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How can I clone my entire OS to a bootable USB stick?
There's Clonezilla, a small linux live distribution which is doing exactly this task:
Somebody explained it in this answer on AskUbuntu:
Steps:
Download Clonezilla from http://clonezilla.org/...
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What is the difference between "Rufus" and "Rufus portable"
As the main developer of Rufus, let me shed a little more light on the question by quoting from what I think is a more relevant portion of the official Rufus FAQ:
First of all, I think I need to ...
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Windows 10 non-persistent installation (live ISO)
There is a project called Win10PE SE which allows you to create a Live Windows 10:
The project uses WinPE but adds desktop/taskbar and allows you to configure which features you want to add or not ...
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Getting Rufus to output to a disk image file
Rufus can create an uncompressed VHD image from whichever drive you have currently selected, which, for all intent and purposes can be used as a regular DD image (because the only difference with a ...
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What is the difference between "Rufus" and "Rufus portable"
How comes the portable and regular version are binary identical?
That's because the way Rufus detects whether it should run in portable
or regular mode is by checking the file name of the ...
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Cannot reformat bootable usb drive on windows
For Windows users: (Without any third-party application)
Open Run and type Cmd to open Command Prompt or if you are familiar with Windows, then open the Command Prompt Run as Administrator.
On ...
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Mounting as loop device fails with "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, ..."
In my case it helped to use kpartx (install with sudo apt-get install kpartx or sudo pacman -S multipath-tools or ...):
$ sudo kpartx -av live-cd.iso
which created a loopback device at /dev/mapper/...
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Wipe hard drive on old windows xp laptop - no CD Drive & no USB Boot support
I have tried this a number of times with success on old systems without USB boot support.
(Or to boot a VirtualBox VM with a USB stick. VirtualBox doesn't normally do USB boot either.)
Get a copy of ...
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Cannot reformat bootable usb drive on windows
I did not have luck with the other methods (diskpart got stuck in the "On computer" part for some reason) mentioned here, but this program worked perfectly and fast:
SD Card Formatter (which, despite ...
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How can a drive appear in lsblk but not in the file manager?
If it's not in the file manager(*) or in df output it is likely because the file system on it hasn't been mounted, if there is one. Otherwise you can create a partition and a filesystem on it (your ...
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Is there a way to add a new windows user from a linux live usb?
Creating a new Windows user is much more complicated than modifying an existing
account.
The new user account needs many new registry entries and folders, and they all
must be created with the right ...
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Difference between a full install on USB and Live USB of any linux OS
Your original "live" versions of distributions would boot off of a CD-ROM and work entirely from RAM, including root and home partitions. It would not modify any drives on the local system. Live ...
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How can I create a Windows bootable USB stick using Ubuntu?
Although you don't have Windows 7 installed yet, you can also create a bootable USB flash drive for installing Windows 7 from Ubuntu using a USB flash drive. WoeUSB is a tool for creating a bootable ...
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How to create a basic yet useful USB toolbox with a selection screen?
PenDrive Linux has several tools for that purpose. (Under Windows)
YUMI - can put Linux Live CD onto USB drive, boot to Windows installation ISO, boot to different tools such as password reset, ...
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How to reset a lost root password in SmartOS
The instructions here are correct, but they're incomplete in the context of booting in noimport mode. usbkey is a filesystem in the "zones" zpool, and when booting in noimport mode it has to be ...
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How to install FreeDos onto a USB stick?
The easiest version I've found so far is this one:
https://www.scivision.dev/freedos-flash-bios-linux/
Determine USB drive device (e.g. /dev/mmcblk0) by issuing this command
before and after USB ...
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How to install FreeDos onto a USB stick?
To detail breversa's answer, which then worked for me:
find out USB device and partition as described (e.g., whole USB stick is /dev/sdc, with first partition /dev/sdc1)
use mkdos on the partition ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 Live USB Not Persistant
Ubuntu 19.10 and later
Windows tool: Rufus
The best application for making a bootable Ubuntu live USB from Windows is Rufus. The official ubuntu.com website recommends using Rufus instead of ...
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How do you access the BIOS if your machine boots too fast for you to enter it, but your OS is broken?
Power down.
Disconnect the internal disk. Don't insert ANY bootable media.
Boot
It should now get to a "can't find boot-device" screen and give you the option to enter the bios.
When in the bios ...
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How can I get Linux Live Kit to work?
I had to use the same tool today and got the same error. To fix it you need to get the whole file location. To see what is the correct one if you want to make the live with running kernel version run ...
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Can I export bootable USB disks to ISO images?
You can make an exact image of a USB drive with PassMark's ImageUSB, or export the USB as ISO using usbimager. Just use the same tool on the image on disk to transfer back to USB.
As you state, it's ...
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How to write Debian to a USB flash drive from a Debian live CD?
An easier way to do it is to download Rufus in Windows from the official Rufus website. Rufus is the recommended application at the official Ubuntu website for making a bootable live Ubuntu USB on ...
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How to force bios to boot from usb
This really depends on the BIOS settings - in some cases you can't do it without modifying the BIOS.
I would not recommend it, but it should be possible to open the system and remove all bootable ...
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How do i install Qubes OS onto a USB?
Use Universal USB Installer on your Windows machine and select your Qubes OS .iso image, as well as your flash drive directory to install it on.
After that, boot from your USB drive.
Link: http://...
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How can I create a Windows bootable USB stick using Ubuntu?
If using rufus:
Make sure partition scheme is MBR (for BIOS or UEFI)
NTFS file sytem
Like as shown below
Probably the better to create a Windows (7) bootable disk, is using the tool from Microsoft ...
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How to flush changes back to live usb when booting into ram with persistence?
Here are my 50 cents.
When running a live linux distro from a CD-rom, the filesystem is readonly. This makes sense because you can't write to a CD-rom. To allow you to create files and make ...
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