Use this tag for interoperability with Windows (dual boot, virtual machines, mixed networks, porting software, …)
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How to install GNU/Linux on a Windows PC without the BIOS password?
I want to install a GNU/Linux based operating system on a computer with Windows preinstalled, but unfortunately, the BIOS is set to only boot from the harddisk, and there is no way to boot from ...
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How to build a live Debian CD/USB in Windows, bootable in EFI mode?
I tried to install the latest stable Debian release (Debian 7.0 "Wheezy") using the Debian Multi-arch netinstall (AMD64) "debian-7.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso" on my laptop. My laptop has a SecureCore ...
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Unable to Boot into F17
I was currently running Win8 and F17 as a dual boot on my home desktop with an i5 chip and Asus UEFI BIOS. Unfortunately, while I was in Win8 I accidentally removed the partition that held my F17 OS.
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Cent OS 6.4 UEFI Dual boot
i'm really a beginner to Linux trying to study for RHCSA certification here.
I have Windows 8 installed on UEFI BIOS. When i installed Cent OS, installation went smoothly and then after restarting, ...
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CentOS 6.4 as VirtualBox guest under Windows 8 host, fullscreen mode causes unresponsive cursor
I apologize in advance if this is an inappropriate place to post this question.
I've installed VirtualBox 4.1.26 in Windows 8 6.2 (I don't think I have Pro) and got CentOS 6.4 installed with Guest ...
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Can I use partitions made by Windows 7 in Linux?
I am planning to leave Windows and get to Linux (yet do not know which one, but it is not the question).
I was using Windows 7, I have 2 partitions (C:198 GB, D:488 GB). And I have a lot of documents ...
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Dual boot - Kubuntu and Windows 8 - how to?
I recently installed Windows 8 on my computer.
These are the specs:
Fx-8150 CPU
8 GB RAM
ATI HD7870
120 GB SSD
2 TB HDD
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (rev 1.1) (only bios but EFI mode possible ...
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Is it possible to x-forward windows apps to linux if windows PC running Xming?
I have been digging around looking for an answer to my question but have no been able to come up with anything.
I know that xming server allows you to transparently run linux applications on windows ...
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Dual boot windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04 & Broadcom Compatibility
I have windows 8 pre-installed and also want to use Ubuntu (13.04) as my secondary OS. I had problems regarding Broadcom STA wireless drivers in 12.10 but the drivers work fine on older versions. How ...
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Connection closed by remote host [closed]
Restarted a machine with cygwin installed, getting a weird error after password success. Has anyone run into this before?
user@172.XXX.XXX.XXX's password:
debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for ...
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Installing Linux Mint on Windows-Ubuntu Dual Boot
I currently have an Ubuntu-Windows Dual boot. However, I would like to try out a new OS so I burned Linux Mint to a USB stick.
I would like to install Linux Mint and remove Ubuntu while still ...
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How do I get Linux on my sat nav?
I have a Clarion MAP680 navigation system, with some version of Windows CE on it. Is there any way I could hack it to get my beloved Linux on it?
It seems to have a 1 GB flash drive or something, and ...
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How do I mount a Windows folder with cifs on Raspian
I'd like to access the music library from my desktop with my Raspberry Pi, and I'd like to do this via Samba/cifs.
I did the following:
Set the folder Q:\musik as a shared folder on my Windows ...
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QEMU Direct Access to Video Card (or, QEMU Video Output without X11)
I have a system that boots up into Linux at power on and then needs to boot into Windows XP Embedded. After messing around with kexec and grub4dos, things aren't working out too well.
One idea that ...
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Automated partition selection in bash script
I'm trying to write a bash script to run from Linux on a CD or flashdrive that can mount Windows and change stuff, but I don't know how to go about detecting which partition/drive is Windows.
My best ...
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Samba and Active Directory limitations
I was wondering if somebody could help me with a question on a networking assignment I have do do with Active Directory and Samba working together (I chose SAMBA). I understand using a Samba domain ...
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Is there a Terminal Services gateway for Linux?
I need to route RDP connections to an available XP virtual machine through linux. Is there such a software?
I have a pool of Windows Machines (VM) all with different IP addresses and I want the ...
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I'm able to remotely ssh into Cygwin on XP, but it warns “Could not chdir to home directory” and my /bin is almost empty
I've made a firewall exception, opened ports 22 through 443 to the correct internal IP (I think), and am able to log in using my external IP, but it's like I have very limited view access to almost ...
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Can the grub2 bootloader replace Windows bootloader partition?
I'm dual-booting Windows and Kali Linux on my laptop, using grub2 as the bootloader.
Can I remove the partition Windows 7 creates for the bootloader? It is the 100MB partition labeled "System ...
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Need telnet to connect to phone system, but not full client mode
My telephone system (fritzbox 7170) outputs log data on telnet and some form of script is needed to start it from crontab, capture all data and write anything that comes in to a log file without ...
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Possible to dual boot Linux Mint on any Windows 8 laptop?
I'm searching for a new laptop, and I'm currently considering getting an ASUS N56VZRH71. Everything spec-wise looks good (except for the absence of an SSD :P), but I want to know if I'll be able to ...
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Boot windows from grub rescue command prompt
Previously I had installed the Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7.
Now I logged on to Windows, gone to partition editor and deleted the volume containing the Ubuntu (Thought it will delete the Ubuntu and it ...
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Running rsh command under the root account
I have two machines running Solaris 9 (192.168.2.9) and Windows XP (192.168.2.5). I need to run the following command on the Windows machine:
rsh 192.168.2.9 -l root pwd
To be able to run this ...
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Why does Arch Linux keep Windows headphone mute
I have an Windows 7 installed, and headphones works perfectly.
Few days ago, I have Arch Linux installed along with Win7.
headphone works fine under Arch Linux
but
When I turned to Win7 from ...
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Are the keyboard layouts in X.org actually called the X.org layouts or what?
Just need to know it, semantically. So most Linux/BSD systems using the X windows manager are using these layouts. For example, the "US International with dead keys" is quite different in X from the ...
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I have replicated partition after I delete it using diskmgmt
I'm a linux newbie, and I messed my partition.
I have 5 partition in my 500GB HD, Windows 7, Data, Data, Linux Mint and Lubuntu.
I accidentally deleted Lubuntu partition using diskmgmt in Windows 7.
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Install/Boot problems after dual boot of Linux Mint on HP Ultrabook (Envy 14 1030us)
I have followed steps to install Linux Mint (as dual boot) on an HP Envy 14 ultrabook (1030us) as detailed by Raphink (on askubuntu "Dual boot Installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on HP Ultrabook ENVY-4 ...
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Trying to install Windows on a system that has Ubuntu 12.04 installed
I'm a novice in installing & debugging OS errors. I had Windows 7 installed & it crashed today (the great blue screen). No matter what I did (tried to install Windows 7 again & again from ...
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How can I prevent Windows from overwriting GRUB when using a dual-boot machine
I've been reading a lot about dual-booting, and it seems as easy as loading Windows and then loading Linux with GRUB, but everybody says that Windows loves to trash GRUB when it gets the opportunity. ...
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Visually displaying keyboard layouts of X.org? / Also: where do X.org keyboard layouts came from?
I'd like to visually see how some of the keyboard layouts in X.org look like, as an example in Windows I can see them with a program called Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator or even on Wikipedia.
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Is there an equivalent to Windows ReadyBoost in Linux? [duplicate]
In Windows 7 a feature was introduced in which you could use a thumbdrive as "poor man's" RAM called ReadyBoost. Does Linux have any equivalent of this?
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AIX UNIX 64 bit connecting to Microsoft SQL server 2008R2 Server
I am having AIX 64 bit Unix machine and I need to connect to Microsoft SQL SERVER 2008 R2 database.
I dont have any Drivers and TDS installed in my machine.
What all tools I need to install including ...
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Querying Microsoft SQL SERVER 2008 from Linux
Basically I want to write all the lines of a text file present in linux machine to Microsoft SQL server database. I need a shell script to connect from my Linux machine to a remote Microsoft SQL ...
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SSH Client for Windows that Allows Colors and File Explorer [closed]
I've tried out a few SSH clients to connect from Windows to Unix for school and I used putty, secure ssh client, and tessh, and bitvise.
The only problem with the above is they all have either the ...
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Can I run emacs as server on Linux but attach from Windows?
I am able to run emacs as server daemon and attach back to it on Linux.
Is it possible to start emacs as daemon on Linux, but attach back to it from Windows with a different client?
Emacs or xemacs, ...
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Fedora 17 Grub not finding Windows 8
I had Windows 8 installed, shrunk it and installed Fedora 17 using the free space. It now only boots into Fedora.
I have these two EFI partitions:
/dev/sda2
/EFI
/Boot/bootx64.efi
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How to merge a Windows 8 install with a Linux Mint, two different disks, same computer
I have a Windows 8 on a disk drive I removed, then installed Linux Mint on a new disk drive. I would like to place the Windows 8 back as dual boot... is this possible?
The problem was, I could never ...
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Accessing a SMB share without a password
When accessing SMB shared that are password-protected, smbclient works just fine.
But when I'm trying to access shared that have no password protection (public shares), smbclient prints:
tree ...
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Exporting (US International) keyboard layout from Debian (Ubuntu) and importing it to Windows 7? [closed]
Here is Windows' US International layout:
(You need at least 10 reputation to post images.)
And here is the Debian (Ubuntu) Implementation, namely US International with dead keys:
(You need at ...
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From Windows 7 + Ubuntu to Crunchbang (First) + Windows 8 (second?)
I'm dual booting a windows 7 + ubuntu machine. I went ahead and replaced ubuntu with crunchbang, and now want to replace (not in place upgrade) windows 7 with windows 8. However, I've always done a ...
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Convincing boss that I need to use Linux [closed]
I am shortly going to be joining a statistics consultancy where the software I'll be using is R and SAS in Windows.
For years I have been using R with Linux (most previous Windows knowledge has ...
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The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state
I try to mount a NTFS partition in nautilus, and it refuse to mount it and suggests resume and shutdown
Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), the problem is that I have already disabled ...
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Is it possible to install Windows and Linux on the same partition?
Just wonder is it possible to install Windows and Linux on a ntfs partition and have both OSes share a root filesystem as either one is booted?
Then the partition will have /bin, /sbin, /home, /lib ...
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No CentOS Windows 8 GRUB Options on Restart
How do I dual-boot CentOS 6.3 Minimal Version on an Acer 64-bit Windows 8 Laptop and get the GRUB options to select either CentOS or Windows 8 when I restart? (Currently it boots straight into Windows ...
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Does Windows recognize Linux's symbolic links?
I was just wondering how a Windows system handles symbolic links. My best guess is that it will not recognize them, but I'm not entirely sure.
Also, what do Macs do when confronted by one?
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help with making the move from Win to Linux [closed]
This will be a looong "question" not because I intend to make it like this but because the more I learn about Linux the more complex it seems to become for me to figure out which Linux distro, and/or ...
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How to get comfortable in linux as an ex-windows user? [closed]
I've been using linux full time for about 8 years. Now and then I help someone else migrate from windows to linux. Because I don't often use windows, I often find myself forgetting some of the ...
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“Access denied” when logging to Solaris virtual machine using ssh
I have got a Solaris 10 on a VMware virtual machine in Windows. This is what I did:
1) Installed PuTTY.
2) Checked whether ssh is running or or not in my Solaris desktop as below:
bash-3.00# ps ...
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Mount a USB disk in Linux which was not properly unmounted in Windows
I would like to know if there is a software solution in Linux for the following situation:
Connect a USB disk to a Windows host (could be XP, Vista,7 , etc).
Copy a big file to the USB disk.
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how to copy files from windows to linux witout password using a script or program?
I did this to copy files between Windows and Linux.
C:\Documents and Settings\668340\My Documents\putty>pscp "C:\Documents and Settings\563456\abc.txt" "auto_root@10.39.5.41:/home/auto/"
But it ...
