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How do I install Red Hat Linux 9.0 Shrike from a USB drive?
I have a desktop PC which does not have a CD drive and does not have access to the Internet or other networks.
I want to install Red Hat Linux 9.0 "Shrike" on it using a 8GB USB flash drive.
I have ...
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How can I create a Windows XP installation USB drive? [closed]
There are two partitions on my hard disk, one is Linux Mint and one is newly formatted. (a simplification)
I have Windows XP installation disks and iso files, however my optical drive isn't working.
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Cut down the installed space?
My system: Debian 6.04, sda is working disk, sdb is my USB disk.
I installed Debian onto the USB drive this way, to edit grub file on sda,
nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg to add the new lines
menuentry ...
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IPCop v2.0.3 Install via USB
I have a SFF (Small Form Factor) PC that I am attempting to install IPCop v2.0.3 onto for use as a firewall in my home network. As it is SFF (Mini-ITX) it did not come with a disk drive and I do not ...
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Some keys on keyboard map to numbers instead
I'm running Leenux 5.1 from a USB stick using unetbootin. It works ok, except my keyboard is messed up -- pressing k results in a 2 instead (the 2 key also types a 2). How could this happen?
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Installing Fedora from USB key
How do I load a Fedora DVD iso onto USB so I can install it from there.
I've tried dd as in here: Fedora instructions but for some reason this didn't work.
Here's what I've tried:
sudo dd ...
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Change /dev/sd* for USB Linux install?
I am trying to install Scientific Linux 6.1 (which is literally RedHat Enterprise Linux without the branding) by booting its installer from my USB drive.
The installer starts fine, but two things ...
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How to install Debian from USB? (Using full size image not netinstall)
I learned of a way to install Debian from USB using the netinstall image, which is fine. However it means I have to spend hours and hours downloading packages to do the install. Is there a way I can ...
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USB Ubuntu with whole-disk encryption
Is it possible to create a single-user USB installation (with persistence) of Ubuntu Linux such that the entire USB stick is encrypted and requires a passphrase at boot time?
Is there an online ...
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SME server install from USB crashes with “IOError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system”
I managed to make my 8.0GB USB flash drive boot the current SME Server 8 beta ISO image. The installation program starts when I boot from USB, and configuration of install options worked fine.
After ...
