Questions tagged [parted-magic]
A LiveCD distro with tools for complete hard disk management
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Ubuntu 16.04 fog server – is it possible to use pxe to boot directly to Nwipe program from Parted Magic?
I have created a fog server using Ubuntu 16.04. I have a boot menu entry for booting to Parted Magic through pxe, and I am able to successfully boot to it.
However, I want to add additional ...
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Load entire live system into RAM?
If I boot Linux without installation (i.e. from live DVD), how can I load the entire disc into RAM in order to be able to re-use the drive?
It is possible with PartedMagic already. How can I do it ...
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Use Parted Magic with YUMI
I've tried putting parted magic versions on an flash drive using YUMI but every time I get an missing file error stating:
This application has raised an unexpected error and must abort.
[45] File or ...
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ddrescue recovering 0B but drive appears in device manager. Is it failing to connect?
I have a failing 2TB Seagate Barracuda drive which came from a GoFlex Home NAS. First sign of trouble came when the drive showed all its root folders and sub-directories as empty, although windows (...
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How to shutdown Linux parted magic from terminal?
Once in a while I have to use parted magic to restore superblocks. I tried to execute in the terminal:
shutdown -h now
telinit 0
Both did not work,
what else might be possible to shutdown Linux via ...
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Changing HFSPlus UUID from PartedMagic
I needed to make a clone of my hard drive recently (bad blocks FTW). I was using Clonezilla at the time.
However, Clonezilla refused to copy the HFS+ partition, so I did it manually. The problem is ...
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Regain access to seemingly frozen Live CD session
A few weeks back I started a machine up with a copy of Parted Magic, and loaded up some webpages in Firefox on it.
Just last week, upon getting back to looking at the machine, I noticed that lxpanel ...
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A window disappeared after I pressed a key in Openbox, how do I bring it back?
I had Firefox running, then (possibly) as a result of a key combination I don't recall, it quickly vanished from screen and Task Bar/Window List.
From my other question it was established the issue is ...
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Disable hardware ad-hoc
I am running Parted Magic doing some data recovery, that I am finding myself concurrently using for some other minor tasks also. Problem being, typing is a nightmare, as the trackpad is enabled (No ...
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Portable software for the Posix world
Is there any "portable" software for Linux (i.e., Ones that can just be un-tar'd and used, instead of in rpm, or similar format. to be used in conjunction with a package manager)?
Also, are there any ...
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USB mouse not working
Every time I plug in any wired mouse recently, I get similar to the below on VCS1:
[1443270.286164] usb 6-1: new low-speed USB device number 15 using uhci_hcd
[1443270.454270] usb 6-1: New USB ...
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SciTE Auto Save Temporary File
I was running an application that seemingly froze the GUI of my Linux distro. After a CtrlAlt Backspace I got back to a terminal and reloaded the GUI.
However, even with the below User Options ...
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No space left on device / No Inodes free OR used / Double mounting
For about a day now I can only create/cp/mv (through terminal or various GUI programs) files on my FAT16 formatted USB stick, of about a few bytes. Doing so with larger files reports cannot create ...
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Custom Linux Timezone
I believe rdesktop 1.7.1 is sending Linux timezones (For example "EST") to the Windows client I regularly connect to (I am yet to find a way of seeing what Windows receives in the way of RDP settings ...
