Questions tagged [disk-image]
Questions surrounding the creation and use of disk images (created via dd, ddrescue, or other means)
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Identifying the file system of an img file and mount it
I have downloaded an SD image loader from nxp website.
The name of the downloaded item is O8.1.0_1.4.0_ANDROID_TOOL_7ULP_GA (This is not an Android question btw).
The image loaded on my SD is inside ...
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GNOME Disks and compress images
How can I create compressed images with GNOME Disks?
If it is not possible, what do you suggest instead?
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SD card content not showing up in Ubuntu
I have burned OS image (.img) into a new SD card (Sandisk 16GB) use LibreELEC USB-SD creator tool on Ubuntu laptop. I assume I don't need to format SD card before writing. Then I tried browse SD card ...
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How to build preinstalled Ubuntu server image?
There are Preinstalled Ubuntu server image for Raspberry Pi on https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/focal/release/:
Where can I find the build scripts to build such image?
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Trying to boot from disk image with grub2
I installed Ubuntu and while fresh, captured the whole drive with the command
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb/image.img
then placed it into
/boot/images/image.img
I want GRUB2 to boot from this ...
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Setup an FAT12 floppy image with MBR
I am following the BrokenThorn tutorial about OS development.
Windows is used in the tutorial, but I decided to use Ubuntu, because the build process is better.
Until now, I only had the program for ...
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Ubuntu Cloud Images - Desktop versions
I was wondering why on official Ubuntu cloud image repository there are only server versions and not standard desktop images (with GUI).
Which is the simplest way to create it?
Thanks!
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Restore Clonezilla Disk Image to a Disk of a Different Size
I use Clonezilla at my school to save and restore disk Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows images over LAN. When I try to restore an image to a computer with a disk whose size is not identical to the disk where ...
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Make an image of my complete linux installation including all my personal files?
Is it possible to convert my Kubuntu to one single ISO? This should also include all the files that I've saved in here (folders on desktop, pictures, etc.).
Moreover, how to restore the image to the ...
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Is there a way to create a bootable image of a running Ubuntu system that excludes certain paths?
I have an Ubuntu 20.04 system that I use as my media server, and I'd like to create an image of the OS (so all my programs and configuration will be preserved) without including my media in the image, ...
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How to boot Ubuntu Cloud image using QEMU
I created config files
echo 'password: asd' > userdata
echo 'local-hostname: localhost' > metadata
Then created iso from them
genisoimage -output geniso.iso -volid cidata -joliet -rock ...
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Need help decompiling .img file on Ubuntu to theme UI
Sorry if it's been asked before but I have this aftermarket digital cluster in my jeep and it runs some kind of Linux version in it. I was wondering if I could get some help in decompiling the update....
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Convert installed system to PXE boot image
I've installed Ubuntu Server 16.04.6 onto a computer, customized it, and would like to take that installation (from a local 32GB mSATA drive; installed files use about 2.6GB) and convert it into an ...
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How to clear shortcuts to mounts?
I was doing a lot of loopback mounts (mounting different disk image files). Each one is leaving a shortcut on the left pane of nautilus and on the Unity Launcher.
How to get rid of them without a ...
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Mount full disk image
I have a small collection of disk images that were made of entire disks. They were made as physical images, by which I mean that the device file was supplied without a side specified – i.e. dd if=/dev/...
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Can I create a Ubuntu disc image from inside a VirtualBox?
I'm in the process of moving from Windows to Ubuntu (14.04) for my web/mobile development and realize that I might definitely screw my PC up at some point. Rather than start over from scratch, I would ...
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Cannot mount large .img disk image files
Normally, when I open a .img disk image (with Disk Image Mounter, which right-click menu tells me), I can mount it and browse the disk image. However, with large disk images (over a gigabyte, this has ...
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Why doesn't this custom created usb drive image mount?
I'm trying to mount a custom usb drive image created with fdisk. This is how I created the image:
Created a file of the exact same size of an old usb drive image used as a model: dd if=/dev/zero of=...
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How to create an image as small as a cloud image?
Creating an Ubuntu 22.04 server image with the official .iso and VirtualBox, for it to be on BTRFS subvolumes, I ended up with more than 4GB of virtual disk.
How do I create an image that is as nice ...
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Gnome Disk Image Mounter Permission Issues
I am trying to mount an ISO but am getting permission issues:
I have tried running disk-image-mounter as root which works, but while in nautilus, under other locations I see the image but am unable ...
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How could I increase root partition size?
I want to increase the size of my root partition.
This is a screenshot of the gparted:
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What's the best way to create an image of an old Mac floppy disk with an eye to further analysis?
I have an old Mac formatted 1.44 MB floppy disk that I want to read in Ubuntu 18.04. When I tried to read it under Windows with the MacDisk app it says that the Mac volume header can't be found. I'm ...
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Why did my download claim to only take 4.6 GB, and the file itself takes up 4.9 GB?
I am selling my old laptop and I want to put Windows 10 on it since it should sell better that way.
I downloaded Windows 10 using the chromium web-browser and it said the file was only 4.6 GB. I have ...
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Creating a machine image that can work on 2 machines with different graphics cards
My scenario:
I have two different Ubuntu 14.04 LTS machines.
Both have NVidia GPUs.
Both are Tesla cards with different architectures and require
different drivers.
Both have all drivers ...
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How to mount disks automatically without fstab?
When I update my system, I always set up the disks to be mounted automatically. The standard behaviour of Ubuntu is unsuitable for my purposes since there are programs accessing disks before I have ...
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Backup full system image to amazon s3
The normal way i get used to take full image backup for my server to external device by:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/my_device/disk_sda.img
Or to another external server:
ssh [email protected] "dd ...
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How can I image an embedded ubuntu device over the network?
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I have an embedded system running Ubuntu 12.04 which I need to upgrade to patch some security vulnerabilities. The changes will include upgrading to ubuntu 14.04, changing a few ...
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File size increases on disk image conversion with qemu-img
I downloaded two Ubuntu cloud image files xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img (294M) and xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.vmdk (282M) from https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/. I ...
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Could I put both the AMD64 and i386 Ubuntu images on one usb drive?
Basically, the PC I use at home is 64-bit and the computers at my school are 32-bit. I'm kind of doubting it, but I'm wondering if I can make a persistent liveUSB of Ubuntu with the startup disk maker ...
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Can I use Guymager tool to create image of Android Phone?
I wish to create bit-by-bit images of Android phone and it's SD card. So far I have learnt to create dd images. But I am unable to use them as they are just raw images. I wish to use this Guymager ...
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How can I use the default generic kernel in a UEC Ubuntu Cloud Image?
I download a UEC style Ubuntu Precise image from http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/ that I want to use in an OpenStack cloud, but I want to make some modifications to it before booting the VM.
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Creating a core image
If I create an image (ie., install and do what I need to do for the image), is there a process or an application I can use to create a "spin" to roll out to a couple of computers, and is there a ...
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Unable to boot after restoring disc image
I bought a new SSD and wanted to restore my previous Ubuntu install. I used gnome's disk utility tool to create the image on an external hard drive.
Once I was done installing Ubuntu through a live ...
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Transfer virtual machine setup to laptop
I spend four days creating a desktop environment as I need on VMware VM.
All is working great, and now I would like to install/copy/transfer this beautiful configuration to my new laptop. I don't want ...
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Proper Way to Produce Image of Truncated GPT Drive
Another question addresses a scenario where truncate damages an image of a GPT drive. If I understand correctly, the advice there is to use gdisk to repair the damage. I would rather not cause the ...
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Erasing Ubuntu image on external hard-drive
I have burned an ubuntu image on an external hard-drive and I am trying to erase it. I have first tried to erase the image through the pi-imager but for some reason I get the error:
Error formatting (...
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Unable to boot from cloned drive using DCFLDD
Original system drive is 1TB NVME M.2 SSD. running Ubuntu 22.04.
created an image file using DCFLDD running off a Live USB on said system.
Moved the image file to another system, and restored it ...
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Create disk image of system with data on Dropboxsync
Every month I create a clone of my system disk (containing Ubuntu 20.04.6) using Clonezilla. Recently I started to save my work to Dropbox. For this I use the Ubuntu Dropbox app. The actual Dropbox ...
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Error finding matching public key for signature with ubuntu-image device
I am following the tutorial for creating a Ubuntu Core image on the Ubuntu website and getting an error. Here is the link to the instructions:
https://ubuntu.com/core/docs/create-model-assertion
The ...
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Is there a way to "fake-install" Ubuntu filesystem into a directory or a tar from an old .img installation medium?
Long story short, I'm trying to create an ARM architecture docker image of Ubuntu 10.04 (don't ask me why) because Docker Hub only contains the amd64 version.
The furthest I got is finding that the ....
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Where to find the script to build images like here: https://partner-images.canonical.com/oci/?
Other answers point to https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/livecd-rootfs/+git/livecd-rootfs/+ref/ubuntu/master as the basis.
I cannot locate the scripts found at the links here: How are the ...
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How to import images in MAAS
How to import images for deployment other than ubuntu like VMWare ESXi, Windows, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu
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Copying Image file to microSD card how best to validate
I use DC3DD to copy Raspberry Pi image files to multiple microSD cards using a Lexar card reader. This has been working well for years, but I've recently encountered a batch of faulty microSD cards.
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Internal HDD cannot give partition
I am having a weird kind of problem. I have a 640gigs internal hdd but it is unusable. It shows up in disks but in weird way.
Image of disks
It just gives format partition option and nothing else. The ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 auto setup image
I'm trying to work out how to make an ISO image for a Ubuntu 18.04 that I can use to install on a remote server from OVH.
Using there BYOI system if I can use an image thats been preseed with the SSH, ...
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Is it possible to rearrange and recreate a single disk partition in a raw image file?
Host: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Current status: Raw image file has 2 partitions, p1: boot and p2: rootfs.
Disk original.img.bak: 3.25 GiB, 3487742976 bytes, 6811998 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 ...
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Create a browsable rootfs image
How to create a browsable rootfs image in Ubuntu? E.g. that I can extract files that I need in a matter of minutes?
Have already considered dd and tar-gzing root fs, but both don’t answer the criteria ...
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Syspreping an Ubuntu image
Is there a way to make a capture-ready Ubuntu image? something like Sysprep for Windows, where you remove all the user-specific data from the image (like user accounts, passwords, etc ...) to make a '...
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moving KVM image from one server to another and then resize
host1 has a 40G guest image inside an LV.
host2 has a 50G guest LV partition available.
dd to transfer host1/guest(40G) --> host2/guest(50G).
gdisk to correct the location of the GPT table -
root@...
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Ignore label when mounting boot partition of os image as a loopback device
I would like to mount the boot partition of the ubuntu-21.10-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi.img.xz downloaded off the Raspberry PI web site.
Unpacking the image file and mounting the boot partition ...
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