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How to Create a Full Install of Ubuntu 22.04 to USB Device Step by Step

Creating a Full Install of Ubuntu 22.04 to USB that works in both BIOS and UEFI Following is based on using a 16GB Target drive, you may adjust partition sizes for a larger drive. The following looks ...
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How to change permission to access my flash drive?

Why are so many files marked with a lock here? And I can't do anything on my flashdrive, like copying, pasting, except for read file only. Because it is mounted as read-only or mounted with write ...
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Can I boot memtest86+ if I'm using UEFI?

PCMemTest (Ubuntu 22.04) Use PCMemTest. Since Ubuntu 22.04 the PCMemTest is available from the Ubuntu repository. PCMemTest is a fork of MemTest86+ and it works fine on UEFI too. As it is part of ...
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Why is it that I am unable to format my pendrive in exfat using gparted?

in Ubuntu 22.04 I was unable to install exfat-utils, but after I installed exfat-fuse and it pulled in a few other exfat items, gparted worked for exfat. So, "sudo apt install exfat-fuse" ...
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Stop asking for authentication to mount USB stick

It is not a good solution, to alter .policy files in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions directory, as other answers suggest, since the files may be overwritten on software update. A permanent solution is to ...
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Can dd with no options other than an output file and /dev/urandom input file cause other files on the partition to be overwritten?

Assuming your disk hardware is good (and not a fradulent SD card showing fake available space), and your filesystem isn't corrupt with corrupted freelists and files whose blocks are still in the ...
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Share first attached USB-Drive

I found a solution. I check the file devices with the script mentioned above. if it exists, I'll create a folder and mount it. If it's already mounted, nothing will be done. As soon as no device is ...
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rsync error code 10 or 11 when trying to full install Lubuntu 22.04 on a 512 GB USB flash drive

Rsync error code 11 indicates that the Disk Space is Full or the system is unable to detect the external drive "some cheap 512GB flash drives online" sounds like they may be fake 512GB flash ...
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My pendrive is not visible due to bad flashing AFAIK

Not sure why it didn't flash properly and gave me error as device not found. It didn't flash properly because your hardware was already defective, and what you saw was the result of that (i.e. the ...
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How do I format a stubborn usb pendrive?

Try this. Open applications -> type Disks and click on it to open,the program open with graphical interface with displaying all disks, select the erasing disk, under that use - sign to erase.
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Wireless usb apapter not show any available networks

I got the exact same issue in my Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. It was recognizing RTL8188FTV 802.11bUSB Wifi adaptor but not scanning any network. So, What I did (after spending a whole day on it): Install and ...
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USB Body cam file access? CammPro i826 / GoPro 9FF2 [Digital Photo Display]

Adding my notes to this answer in case it helps someone else get further along. I tried installing the drivers via Wine. These are the drivers I installed: https://drive.google.com/file/d/...
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Can I boot memtest86+ if I'm using UEFI?

Memtest86 works in UEFI mode. It has a free variant but is not open-souce. Download the iso from https://www.memtest86.com/tech_booting-cd-dvd.html Burn it to usb drive (I used etcher). Now restart ...

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