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Installing Linux server on USB stick
I am looking to rent 6 of these servers: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4s
As you can see, the hard drives aren't server grade and they break a lot.
I was wondering if it's ...
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Create a bootable USB ISO stick without formatting the stick [closed]
I know that there is a lot of software and even in Windows or Linux you can just use commands to do it, but all these alternatives needs to FORMAT the usb stick.
What I'm looking for is some ...
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Create a bootable usb drive with simple message [closed]
This should be simple but cannot get my head around it.
Want to create a bootable usb drive (FreeDos, Syslinux GrubforDos) really don't care.
All I need is it to boot and display a simple message and ...
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booting FreeBSD 9 from USB stick: boot error
I am trying to boot FreeBSD 9 from a USB stick that I created following the official guidelines:
dd if=FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=64k
Booting fails with a simple 'boot ...
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Making existing Software portable? [closed]
I have Quark XPress 9, and want to make it portable for my own personal use.
It will not be distributed, only used by myself to create PDFs for manuals. (I use it for other purposes, but creating ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Can the page file in Windows Web Server 2008 be placed on a USB memory stick?
I would like to run the page file off a 512 MB USB memory stick. This is possible with Vista and 7. But on Windows Web Server 2008 I cannot see the USB stick in the drive listing for page files. Is ...
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Conditional `mount` in Linux: dev or nfs
I have a mount point — let it be /media/question — and two possible devices: a physical HDD and a remote NFS folder. Sometimes I plug the device in physically, in other cases I mount it via NFS.
Is ...
