Questions tagged [usb-flash-drive]
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Good tools that fit on a thumb drive
I have been on the lookout lately for some good tools to fill up my flash drive and I thought I would ask the Server Fault community for recommendations on good tools that will fit onto a thumb drive.
Some I use are Driver Packs, CCleaner and the…
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Boot and Install Windows from a USB thumb drive
Installing Windows from a thumb drive is vastly superior to burning a copy to a DVD which will fill some landfill somewhere with toxic stuff. Not to mention it's about 50x faster to install Windows from a USB Thumb Drive.
How do you get the bits…
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Automount USB drives with systemd
We're updating our servers from a very out-of-date distro to a modern Debian Jessie based system, including lightdm / xfce, and of course systemd (and udisks2). One sticking point is automounting USB drives. We used to accomplish this with some udev…
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How to make a bootable USB drive out of a bootable DVD or CD
Is there a "universal" way of how you can make a bootable USB drive out of a bootable dvd or cd? What makes a USB drive bootable? What makes a dvd and cd bootable?
For example there is a program called UNetBootin which can make bootable USB drives,…
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How to write ISO image to usb memory stick from linux command-line?
I'm having trouble figuring out how I would write an ISO disk image to a USB flash memory device from the command line in Ubuntu. I have the Startup Disk Creator utility, but I need to be able to script this job.
I found the usb-creator package, but…
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Dual boot from USB flash drive?
Is it possible to dual boot from a USB flash drive? Also is it possible to boot the operating system from an ISO image (like the Ubuntu Live CD)?
How would you go about doing this and what software would be needed?
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Flash Drives - should be formatted NTFS?
Should Flash Drives be formatted NTFS? What are the Pros & Cons of doing so?
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Centos 7/1503 -- Getting Error setting up base repository during installation
I've created bootable USB flash drive using recommended LiveUSB Creator using CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1503-01.iso.
Now being at Installation Summary screen I'm getting Error setting up base repository. When I click on Verify at Installation…
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How can I test for BadUSB vulnerability?
There are news that an unpatchable and unfixable USB firmware exploit is "out there".
This could seem unrelated to servers but since the affected hardware from Phison is not disclosed there is a possibility of devices that are connected to an…
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Moving ESXi installation to USB key
What's the best way to move a VMware ESXi 4.1 installation from a harddrive to a usb memory?
I'm planning to install a fresh VMware ESXi on the usb key, boot it up, and then somehow transfer the configuration from the harddrive, is that possible? Do…
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Which /dev/sdX is my usb stick on?
How can I determine which /dev/sdX device my usb stick is plugged into?
I am running Ubuntu 9.04.
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How to mount an USB drive under VMWare ESXi 5.5?
I want to mount an USB drive to VMWare ESXi 5.5 host.
The USB drive is visible with lsusb :
Bus 01 Device 03: ID 154b:0095 PNY
But not under /vmfs.
Under /dev/disks/ I see many entries, but dunno if one of those is my USB disk:
mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 …
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Flashing the Firmware on a 3ware 9650SE RAID controller
I've downloaded the required files to flash the firmware on my RAID controller
I have also read the KB article:http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=10058
However it is not particularly clear - I do not have an OS installed yet, so how can I flash…
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How to remove all previous devices in xp?
On our computers, we use daily dozens of different usb drives from our customers.
This is bad because the registry hive is becoming huge as windows is so "smart" to save them forever
I set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 and i saw thousands of usb…
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Server System drive on a USB stick? Good? Bad?
This is a follow up to this question.
I am assembling a storage server with 14 SATA drives.
I don't want to "waste" a drive for the OS system, so I thought I could isntall and run the OS from a USB stick. The system will be very skinny (just a…
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