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  1. [SOLVED] Re: Is there a way to install Windows 7 to a USB?

    This looks good, but will the Win 7 installation disk boot on a modern computer? It's MBR, not UEFI. I notice the author keeps talking about Win 10. I guess I may have to try that.
  2. Re: How to copy file to FreeDOS in a Virtual Machine?

    Thanks, TheFu. The link to wiki.freedos.org looks like what I need. I feel so dumb for not finding it. Chapter 6 explains how to mount a virtual hard drive on the host computer (for Windows, MAC, and...
  3. Re: How to copy file to FreeDOS in a Virtual Machine?

    Well, it's actually FreeDOS, which is still being supported. I've given up on being able to install DOS to a USB stick. Now I just want to learn how to install files to it. And I use LibreOffice for...
  4. [SOLVED] Re: Is there a way to install Windows 7 to a USB?

    I already have a 1TB external drive (Western Digital) on my PC for backup. It runs fine from the USB port. Does an SSD use more power than a HDD?
  5. Re: How to copy file to FreeDOS in a Virtual Machine?

    I've already installed DOSBox, because I want to run these games anyway, and I used to run them in DOSBox on Windows. But let's say I want to learn to use Wordperfect in DOS. How would I install the...
  6. How to copy file to FreeDOS in a Virtual Machine?

    I've been searching for three days and haven't found an answer. I'm running Ubuntu 22.04, I've created a VirtualBox and installed FreeDOS into it. I can boot FreeDOS in the VM, and I've downloaded...
  7. [SOLVED] Re: Is there a way to install Windows 7 to a USB?

    I have several USB sticks, ranging from 16GB to 256GB. I don't know where I could buy a smaller USB stick these days. I would like to buy a 1 Terabyte stick, but they're currently too unreliable, and...
  8. [SOLVED] Re: Is there a way to install Windows 7 to a USB?

    Now THAT'S interesting. I'll have to give it a try. Thank you for the visual. It's very helpful.
  9. [SOLVED] Re: Is there a way to install Windows 7 to a USB?

    Yes, several years ago I tried running Microsoft Train Simulator in a virtualbox vm with Windows 7 installed and it failed. Of course, the Linux was installed on a USB stick, and now I'm on the...
  10. [SOLVED] Re: Is there a way to install Windows 7 to a USB?

    Alas, it's another Windows program. I'll have to see if it works under Wine, but I'm not hopeful. It's also slightly more complicated than Microsoft Train Simulator, and I used to try it out from...
  11. [SOLVED] Re: Is there a way to install Windows 7 to a USB?

    Yes, I can install Windows 7 to VirtualBox, but I can't run games there. I was hoping to be able to run Microsoft Train Simulater, but I guess I'll just have to miss it. Well, thank you for your help.
  12. [SOLVED] Is there a way to install Windows 7 to a USB?

    I've used Linux for many years, and exclusively for the last two. I'm currently running Ubuntu 22.04.3 There are a couple of games that don't work under Wine nor in a VM that I rather miss. I have...
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    [ubuntu] Re: why is backup (deja-dup) failing?

    Sounds like a good idea. Where/how do I find the log files for deja-dup?
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    [ubuntu] why is backup (deja-dup) failing?

    It seems like every week backup reports that it failed. When I open the GUI, it says something like, "last backup 10 days ago." Why is deja-dup telling me that it failed? Is there something I need to...
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    [SOLVED] Error on every page in Document Scanner

    This is a mere annoyance. Every time I scan a page in Document Scanner (simple-scan) when the scan completes it throws an error message:


    Failed to scan.
    Error communicating with scanner.
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  16. [SOLVED] Getting error message when scanning documents

    I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 and using simple-scan. I have a Canon G2010 all-purpose printer/scanner. When I scan documents into multi-page .pdf files, after each page is (successfully) scanned, an error...
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    [SOLVED] Re: USB Flash Drive has bad superblock

    Yeah, it was only $6 (฿199), and I figured on just throwing it away, but after I posted above I ran fsck.ext4 again, and this time it actually worked. I'll try again tomorrow to install Kali Linux. I...
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    [SOLVED] USB Flash Drive has bad superblock

    I bought a cheap USB 3.0 2TB thumb drive and tried to install Kali Linux on it. Failed on partitioning. e2fsck says there's a bad magic number in the superblock. Trying alternate superblocks doesn't...
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    [SOLVED] Re: PDF Reader With Pg-Up/Dn

    Thanks for your help. I'll take a look at it. I'm not really interested in using keyboard shortcuts. With Adobe Reader CD I used the buttons on the GUI. Come to think of it, keyboard shortcuts would...
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    [SOLVED] PDF Reader With Pg-Up/Dn

    I see Adobe Reader DC is not recommended any more. I'm coming from Windows, where it was my goto PDF reader. Evince is OK, but it doesn't have a page up or down button. The Page Up and Page Down keys...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Remove Application Icons

    Yeah, that's where they were. There was a long path to the icons, but I'm so glad to finally be rid of them. Thanks a lot.
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    [SOLVED] Re: Remove Application Icons

    Nope, not in either one. /usr/share/icons looks like the names of themes for ubuntu. Thanks, anyway.
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    [SOLVED] Re: Remove Application Icons

    Alas, the only snap I have installed is Firefox. The icons I want to remove are from a program I installed from a DVD.
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    [SOLVED] Remove Application Icons

    I've just newly installed ubuntu 22.04.1, completed restoring my data, and am now in the process of reinstalling the programs. I have, in my Applications window, six icons from a Windows program I...
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    [ubuntu] Can't install newer Haskell

    I've never used Haskell, but it looked interesting, so I installed the tools on my Ubuntu 22.04. When I compiled the "hello, world" program, I got error messages indicating that the linker in gcc had...
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