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Create image from older to newer
I have an older hp-540 laptop and bought a new dell-inspiration-14r. Now I want to create a complete image of my older into the new one.Is this possible? if possible than how? I have ubuntu 12.04 in ...
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Upgrade release - with fallback options, or do it virtually
So then the 13.04 release came along. Unfortunately I have only have trouble by earlier
upgrades and always ended up in a FUBAR and consequently reinstalling entire system. Would like to avoid that ...
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Can I clone my existing Ubuntu 12.10 and install to USB
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed from scratch. It is set up the way I would want to have it also for my Laptop and work Laptop.
But rather than actually installing the OS again two more times, I want ...
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recover data on external drive
I lost all my data on an external hard driven and need help getting it back.
I first installed ubuntu 12.04 64bit in dual boot along side windows 7 64,then I updated and installed all the programs ...
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Edit grub on external cloned usb disk to make it bootable from parent bios
1) I have an Ubuntu system which I cloned to an external disk using dd
dd if=/dev/sde of=/dev/sdf bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror
2) I then changed the uuid of the external disk (/dev/sdf) to a new ...
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Cloning a remote virtual Server
I rented a virtual server running Ubuntu. To test changes to my configuration I'd like to be able to try them on a local machine. So basically I'd like to create a clone of the virtual server (I don't ...
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How can I re-poll re-detect video or clone good settings to a new installation?
I've previously posted this in the forums as
ubuntu 12.10 ubiquity and display problems
is there any way I can clone my secure remix settings to regular 12.10?
Ubuntu 12.04 worked fine in my now ...
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Clone encrypted HDD to smaller drive
For my work Laptop I use full HDD encryption and I need to upgrade my 500GB HDD to a 250 SSD drive, my HDD has only around 100GB of data and is created via encrypted LVM.
GParted does not support ...
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No sound via HDMI and I cannot use mirror display on a lenovo G560
Had some trouble since switching from Win to Ubuntu yesterday. When I connect my pc through HDMI to my TV the sound doesn't work. The video is there (expanded desktop) but the sound is still coming ...
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Script/tool to clone a ubuntu server
I have installed and configured a ubuntu server (installing additional packages and making modifications to some configuration files). Now I would like to install an almost identical system, which ...
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Cloning an encrypted hard disk to a different computer
I'm using 12.10 with full-disk encryption. Can I clone my full-encrypted hard disk from an old laptop and write it, as-is, to a new laptop and expect everything to work correctly right away?
If there ...
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How to create an image of my ubuntu 12.10
Hi last week I installed ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop and Today I have my system more or less configure as I like.
I would like to know how can I create an image of the system that can use to install ...
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How can I clone a hard disk to a smaller SSD?
I have a hard drive in my laptop with a windows and an ubuntu partition. I got an SSD to replace my hard drive, but it has a slightly lower capacity. I've already partitioned the SSD to the sizes I ...
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How to reconfigure for new hardware after cloning from a desktop to a laptop?
After cloning a hard drive (with Ubuntu 10.04) to a new computer, how can I configure the OS to its new hardware?
What I've done so far:
Clone desktop HDD to laptop HDD
run boot-repair to fix the ...
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SD card clone using dd command
I am trying to clone SD card which may contain number of partitions, some of them Ubuntu cannot recognize. Generally, I want to clone the whole volume, not only some partition. So, I mount SD card and ...
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Cloning a dual boot system from HDD to SSD
I'm planning on replacing my laptop's HDD with a 256GB SSD, but I have a dual-boot (12.04 and Windows 7) setup and I'd like to be able to directly migrate Ubuntu over without having to reinstall and ...
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How to clone two hard drives into one
Lately when running SMART tests of my hard drives above shows many errors I read a good number of sectors so I decided to buy a new one. The problem is I do not want to have to reinstall my operating ...
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When Cloning Linux Systems
Assuming you want to use the same OS type on each computer (Ex: Intel x32 bit), is it possible to clone one linux file system of one computer (IE the entire OS) to another computer's hard drive that ...
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Backup programs and user data from an old hdd to a new installation on ssd
I have a Ubuntu system on my old hdd, which is connected via usb to this system, and a sdd is built into my notebook. At the moment I am running an Ubuntu system from a usb stick.
I have tried to ...
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Possibility to encrypt files to only be used on the current PC
Is it possible to do the following:
Allow user to access anything on PC
Encrypt information in a way that it can only be accessed from that particular PC.
If user tries to clone/dd/gpart copy the ...
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How to clone root user in Ubuntu?
What is the procedure of cloning the root user in Ubuntu? How is root cloning useful?
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Is there a free trusted vmware image with Ubuntu preinstalled?
Since the vmware virtual machine drivers are pretty standard I don't see any technical reason for a preinstalled image not to be portable.
Although the above situation is obvious, I didn't find any ...
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How to duplicate a tab in Firefox?
Is it possible to clone/duplicate tab in Firefox?
Basicaly, the other new tab should contain the same history of the tab I'm trying to clone.
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How to disable clone display mode on Ubuntu login screen? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to force Multiple Monitors correct resolutions for LightDM?
I'm using Toshiba Satellite L750-20C laptop as primary display (screen resolution 1366x768) and AOC ...
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How to clone my Lucid (10.04) + root as an image for further re-installation?
How to clone my OS + it's root as an image (without size limitation) and then for example writing it on a dual layered DVD? I used Remastersys but it issues the size of the output image and then ...
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Strategy Need to Migrate larger SATA drive to smaller SSD?
My current 12.04 install is on a 750GiB SATA drive and I would like to smaller 480GiB SSD. I only have about 250GiB in use right now, along with an 8 GiB swap partition.
I regularly use Clonezilla, ...
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Clone 320GB Hardrive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make a disk image and restore from it later?
Backup : Ubuntu 12.04 Precise
Can i clone 320gb hardrive with Ubuntu installed onto a 8gb PenDrive.
I have ...
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Is it worth it to change from Ext4 to Ext3 in order to use Partimage?
I am looking for a partition imaging program, like Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, that will run on the PC (not from live-cd or USB) and can save the image onto a separate partition. I am brand ...
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Installing/Cloning from Ubuntu Installed and Running on USB to HD
I installed Ubuntu on to a USB and everything's running perfectly thus far. I can use it to boot into my desktop as well as laptops.
The question I have:-
I would like to use the Ubuntu on the USB ...
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Can no longer boot win7 after win7/ubuntu partition cloning to another drive. Any idea?
I recently changed the drive of my laptor, from 500G HDD to 256 SSD.
I did the cloning using gparted for reducing and copying all partitions from HHD to SSD.
After which I reinstalled grub on the new ...
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Differences between cloning an installation and doing a fresh installation
From what an end user might experience, what are the differences between cloning to a new PC/Laptop an already installed, configured and updated system or doing a fresh installation assuming that the ...
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Clonning a Dual boot HDD
I have a laptop with 320 Gb HDD running Win7/Fedora 16.
This is what I wanna do.
clone the 320 Gb HDD to a 500 Gb HDD, keep the windows partition as it is, wipe out fedora 16 and install ubuntu 12.04 ...
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'Cloning' Ubuntu to my other PC?
I searched here and see mention of Clonezilla and Remastersys - but nothing I found answered my question completely, so I ask:
My home PC is just a generic one, and now that I changed it to Ubuntu I ...
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Can I create a bootable external HD from an existing Ubuntu installation?
I know how to do a fresh installation on an external (USB) HDD and make it bootable but I'd like to avoid configuring it and installing all the apps and tweaks.
Can I just make the drive bootable ...
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How to copy a bootable NTFS partition from one physical hard drive to another with Ubuntu?
I have a USB flash drive with Ubuntu 11.10 installed that I would like to use for the following task:
I have a hard drive with 4 partitions. The second one is formatted with NTFS and contains a fully ...
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How do i make my existing ubuntu in a bootable installation CD? I tried remastersys but fails with 11.10
I need to install 10 PC which has identical setup and hardware. So i was trying remastersys but its failing. How can i resolve this or use something else to achieve this?
Updating the remastersys.log
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Clone an initial Ubuntu 11.10 installation for different users
I have a question and hope you guys would be able to help me out.
I am going to make an fresh Ubuntu 11.10 installation. While installing, I would create the user "chris". Afterwards I would ...
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How can I know how long `dd` cloning will take?
I have to dd a couple of 1TB hard drives. They are taking several hours to clone and I was wondering if there was any way possible of knowing how fast they are going, how much they have done and how ...
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Ext4 suitable Partition backup tool?
I just tried partimage , it doesn't have a EXT4 support officially , all my partition was displayed as ext3fs , and my LVM volume are named as dm-X.
So i'm wondering if there's another workable ...
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Anyway to make a liveCD from my current installation?
Remastersys is no longer maintained and UCK as well as Live-Magic aren't exactly what I'm looking for as they remaster a livecd. What I'm aiming for is something like PCLOS's makelivecd so I can have ...
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How to backup my Ubuntu, so that i can clone the same setup to another PC?
How can i make a boot-able CD of my existing Ubuntu including all the modifications i did?.
So, that i can use that CD to my another same new PC to start quickly all setup done.
Follow up:
$ sudo ...
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Virtualize a Linux physical server
I have an old proxy server
uname -a:
Linux proxy 2.6.18-6-686 SMP etc etc
I think it's Debian (I have apt-get).
I've read an interesting article to achieve the virtualization result:
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Gzip time to decompress?
I wanted to backup my entire server, which is hosted. So I used dd and gzip to make the file smaller. The disk was 500GB, but with less than 5% used. I managed to dd the whole partition into a 200 ...
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How to copy an Ubuntu install from one laptop to another
I am going to change my machine: from a laptop with Ubuntu to another laptop where I am going to install Ubuntu...
I am quite happy with the current system, what I am afraid of is having to rebuild ...
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“Failed to set DisplayPort power” - Dual Head freezes OS
Problem
No picture appears on the second, externally, connected monitor.
All used to work perfectly until a week ago or so. I always used nvidia-settings + TwinView/Clone to clone my laptops view, ...
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How do I best clone an existing dual boot hhd to a new, larger hhd? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I can clone or ghost my system drive to restore it to a bigger HD?
I have a 160GB hhd running Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows XP, with the following partition ...
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How do I change from Clone to Xinerama mode in Kubuntu? [closed]
I have an ATI Radeon HD 5700 with 2 monitors.
In Windows 7 I can use both screens fine (I mean like having a single monitor).
I have also installed Kubuntu, but when I log in, the monitors are ...
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Possible to format/create partitions with Clonezilla?
I am wondering if its possible to create/format/resize partitions with clonezilla?
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Clone screen default (projector)
How to make your Ubuntu use "clone" screen, when I input projector? It always go to extended desktop and then I need to check "clone screen" and apply. How to make it remember I always want to ...
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Set up grub2 on cloned Ubuntu installation
With an Ubuntu Live Disc, I have copied my Ubuntu 10.04 installation to a new harddisk (with the same hardware). However, it doesn't boot, since I think I still need to set up grub for this new ...
