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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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2answers
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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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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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2answers
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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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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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1answer
292 views
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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1answer
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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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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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3answers
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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 ...
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0answers
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Looking for information about Linux flaws [closed]
I have just started using Linux-mint 14 and I'm rather new to this. Yet I find this system interesting and the concept of open-source inviting. On the other hand I still have some apprehension from ...
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2answers
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How should I prevent data corruption on an NTFS partition shared by Windows and Linux?
I use Linux for most of the things but I still need Windows sometimes. So, I have Linux Mint 14 and Windows 8 installed (dual-booting) on my computer with the following disk setup:
sda1: The 350 MB ...
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1answer
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What is a datastore especially when considering *nix systems as hosts?
Is it the .vmx files that are created on installing VMWare,
does it differs across Windows and Linux platforms as hosts?
How can we create or browse datastores when the host is Linux or Windows?
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3answers
641 views
File system compatible with all OSes?
I use Linux and Mac OS X on a regular basis, and sometimes I have to use Windows. I need to use a flash drive on all three, and I need a filesystem that will work well on all of them. None of the ...
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How can I access (including read and write) a linux file system from a windows machine on the same network [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to share files between Linux and Windows?
I have a Linux virtual machine (Hyper-V) acting as a web server on my network. I would prefer to browse it's file system ...
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1answer
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Don't have write permission in partition
In my PC I have installs Windows7 and then Ubuntu as OSes.
When I try to access other partitions ( E: and F: which I'm using from Winsows7 OS) it get mount without any issue and can read and modify ...
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4answers
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Virus 'caught' while using Linux lays dormant, becomes active when login into Windows, can it be?
Can I 'catch' a Windows virus, while using Linux - so it will be saved on my hard drive and start working when I log in to Windows? I know it wouldn't affect the Linux itself. I am using 'Dual boot', ...
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1answer
419 views
Remote GUI login from Windows machine to Linux machine [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Accessing Linux server from Windows machine in graphical mode via SSH
How I can login to a remote CentOS' GUI from my Windows 7 laptop?
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1answer
162 views
Adding Windows user to Linux group; possible?
I have a NAS that runs on Linux and I connect to it from my Windows desktop. I noticed that all directory in that drive belongs to user 'root' and group 'root'. That effectively denies me the right to ...
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2answers
132 views
Backup & restore from Linux to Windows while Linux is running
I have a lab with some Linux machines, some are Red Hat 5.1 machines installed on HPDL580 HW, and some are Linux installed on BLADE IBM machines.
Also I have laptop computer with Windows XP.
My ...
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1answer
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What is Linux doing differently that allows me to remove/replace files where Windows would complain the file is currently in use?
The example I have is Minecraft. When running Bukkit on Linux I can remove or update the .jar files in the /plugins folder and simply run the 'reload' command.
In Windows, I have to take the whole ...
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2answers
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SMB Mount To Windows Server Appears to Lock up. Any Ideas?
We are running CentOS 6.3 with all the latest updates. (Attempt to resolve this issue)
The Server I am trying to connect to is a Windows Server 2008 R2 box. Though this applies to our old SBS'03 Box ...
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2answers
170 views
What factors contribute to the expense of migrating to Linux? [closed]
People have various reasons(... and more reasons) to use Linux:
Freedom
Reliability
Stability
Security
Commercial support
But the question of cost is usually put aside, although Linux ...
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1answer
156 views
What is the best procedure for setting up a triple-boot system?
I have a machine that I wish to install 3 operating systems on. The systems are, in no particular order, Windows 8, Ubuntu, and Backtrack Linux. Is there some document or step-by-step guide to the ...
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1answer
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Fedora 16 fails to boot after Win7 installed a GPT Drive
So, I have Windows 7 and Fedora 16 installed on my old HDD. Everything worked well and fine before I've had my new 3TB drive built in, which I initialized as GPT in Windows. Actually I initialized ...
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4answers
592 views
Running Visual Studio 2010 in Linux
Is there any possible way to run Visual Studio 2010 in Linux (Red Hat)?
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2answers
146 views
Program to manipulate Samba shares (net.exe equivalent)
Is there an equivalent to the NET.exe suite for linux systems with which I can do net view queries for example?
0
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1answer
678 views
Want Windows to boot instead of Grub
So when I turn my computer on, Grub rescue boots up. I have finally figured out how to get into Windows, but now I want to skip the step of entering the information into Grub to get into windows. How ...
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2answers
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Need to boot Windows 7 from Grub rescue command prompt
I booted my computer today and found the Grub rescue command prompt. I have been given this computer and it has Linux and windows 7 on it, but I have only ever used the windows section. I have no idea ...
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4answers
299 views
Active Directory Domain with SAMBA or Other Tool
Can I create a domain using SAMBA and set up Active Directory with SAMBA on it? And by this I mean no windows servers involved. I would also like to be able to log in from a Windows machine. ...
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3answers
353 views
Linux and Windows compatible home drive
I want to have a singular home drive for both my Win7 and Arch partitions, so I initially set the partition to NTFS, as so:
5gb /
20gb C:
475gb /home + D:
which worked up until I started ...
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3answers
463 views
Is it possible to download extremely large files intelligently or in parts via SSH from Linux to Windows?
I have a ~35 GB file on a remote Linux Ubuntu server. Locally, I am running Windows XP, so I am connecting to the remote Linux server using SSH (specifically, I am using a Windows program called SSH ...
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3answers
448 views
Advantage to using Linux over Windows? [closed]
I want to get into using Linux more, all my programming and development has all been done under Windows. But I am wondering what is the core advantages to using Linux over Windows? What can I do in ...
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6answers
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exit out of all SSH connections in one command and close PuTTY
Is there a way to back out of all SSH connections and close PuTTY in "one shot"? I work in Windows 7 and use PuTTY to SSH to various Linux hosts.
An example of the way I find myself working:
SSH to ...
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2answers
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How to bypass youtube's local cache?
Youtube performance here in Brazil has been terrible lately.
Checking my browser's activity I can see that my ISP has a local Youtube cache and serves videos in 1.7 MB chunks.
Talking to some friends ...
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How do I share internet with Windows from my Linux box?
I have a Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) PC connected to the internet with a Greenpacket WiMax USB modem. I want to share the Internet connection with another computer running Windows 7 Home Premium, connected ...
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1answer
373 views
Windows host shares doesn't get mount when I boot into Linux guest in vmware?
I've enable network shares in vmware and I want to share a Windows folder with my Linux guest OS but I don't know where to look in my guest OS? In Linux I've looked into network shares and samba ...
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Can I connect to Windows machine from Linux shell?
I can connect to Linux machines from Windows using PuTTY/SSH. I want to do the other way round - connect to a Windows machine from Linux.
Is this possible?
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1answer
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Postgres 9.0 linux command to windows command conversion [closed]
i am working on an application using delphi 7 as the front end and postgres 9.0 as the back end.
I have to upload images to the server so i use \lo_import and \lo_export for inserting images on the ...
0
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1answer
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Is the process of backing-up a database and sending the generated CSV to a remote server easier on Windows or Linux? [closed]
My employers currently use a Windows IIS Database server which I am trying to change to Linux.
But I need to convince them.
There is a requirement to automate a process of backing-up the database ...
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1answer
109 views
What other distributions provide the option to install inside Windows?
I mean installing with something like wubi? Can Fedora do this?
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1answer
418 views
Where can I look for backup script?
I want find out where the backup script of a Fedora 8 server is. I haven't found it so far ( my Linux knowledge is very spare). I looked with crontab -l and I only can find a tempdelete.pl. Than I ...
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1answer
753 views
ssh tunnel on ssh tunnel between Windows and two Linux machines
I have the following configuration and want to establish a tunnel on a tunnel.
I read already the following topic:
How to put a tunnel in a tunnel?
My configuration:
Notebook --> Linux Server A ...
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2answers
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Overwrote Windows with Linux, how can I recover data?
While installing Ubuntu 11.10 (ext4) I accidentally chose a wrong partition and it overwrote my Windows 2003 installation (ntfs). How can I recover files?
So far I tried photoRec and it recovered ...
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Does replacing Windows with Fedora still work in Windows 7 or do I need to do Dual Boot?
For the last 5 years, my procedure for setting up a Linux box has been to get the CDs (RH9, then FC11), boot the CD and just install Linux. I do not wish to have dual boot; I want it to just run ...
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A reliable and free way to use Linux on Windows, multiprocessor and x86_64
I need a reliable and free virtual machine to run Linux on Windows, multiprocessor and x86_64. I need a good environment to compile and run ffmpeg and libvpx. I have used Mint Debian under Virtual ...
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Allow Windows file share through a Linux Firewall
I'm struggling to enable NTFS share between two Windows (XP and 7) hosts through a Linux firewall.
Here's my setup:
[XPMachine-LAN1]---------->[LINUX FIREWALL]---------->[Win7-LAN2]
What I ...
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3answers
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How to share files between Linux and Windows?
I am wondering, is there any way to easily share a folder between Linux and Windows?
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1answer
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Mount a Windows network drive
I want to mount a netword drive on the server (SBS2008). I have two options: Either using a fedora which already mounts on a CentOS server or directly on the CentOS server. Here is the command I tried ...
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Getting Samba on suse to work with NTFS drives [closed]
For a server with samba. I've just added (to the server, just shoved it in) an ntfs drive with some stuff and I want to access it through win7 (home edition). After a small struggle I've managed to ...
