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Sure thing, it happens. Just a warning, Windows will tell you that you need a setup key which costs about $100. You don't actually NEED it. You can just hit "Not now" or whatever when it asks for a key. After a little while you will see a "ACTIVATE WINDOWS" water mark and certain non essential settings (like desktop color theming and backgrounds) will be blocked behind the Windows activation. There's plenty of ways to pirate Windows license keys if you check around but I've personally never bothered.
If you want a fully free operating system, you can check out the world of Linux. Ubuntu is very simple to start with and has a nice interface. It also is based off the same distro that Valve is using for SteamOS so it's very friendly with games.
https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop
And if you need a tool for burning these OS's to your flash drive, Balena Etcher is great and incredibly simple to use.
Seems like a known issue https://github.com/pop-os/iso/issues/224 there are some work arounds in that post.
Edit: are you using Yumi boot to create your bootable USB drive? In that case, use something else. Someone suggested Etcher and I agree https://www.balena.io/etcher/
I can offer one answer and a bit of backstory: I'm working on info-beamer.com, one of the digital signage services based on the Pi.
Back when I started, I decided that most of the traditional ways of setting up Pi software, e.g. flashing usually large (>1GB) images to SD cards is too annoying. The installation for our info-beamer software is therefore a bit different and both faster and simpler than most other solutions: You just unzip a single 40MB zip file on a brand new SD card. That's all. It literally takes 10 seconds to install our software and you don't need any special software to flash. After that you insert the SD card into the Pi, it'll reformat the SD card and you can start using our service. I've seen new users setting up ~50 devices from scratch within ~4 hours, which included unboxing and assembling the cases. So it can be really simple if you want :-)
If you're use one of those 1GB installation image services, the best (not yet available) way would probably be something like this.
The style and way that you do things with your computer. See it like comparing Windows to MacOS, but I'm not talking about apps or games that can run on each machine, but the way it looks and how you interact with it.
In Linux, we call these Desktop Environments or DEs and we have a lot to choose from: KDE Plasma, Gnome, XFCE, LXQT, Pantheon, Elementary, Deepin, Cinnamon, Mate and many others.
In the end is a matter of taste, pick what DE you think looks great and try it out on a USB with a live image. That's another beauty of Linux, you don't have to install it to test it, you just need a USB (or a DVD if you want) and with an app like Balena Etcher you can see if that distro is right for you. Just remember that distributions (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Manjaro, etc) most of the time come with different desktop environments, so even if you don't like a particular DE you can try another within the same distribution.
PS: maybe this video will help you understand things better and have a quick look of the different desktops.
Cheers!
The .eu link looks sketchy. Very few legitimate websites use the .eu domain, unless it's something very specific to Europe. Also very few legit websites use a hyphen in their name.
Good of you for asking before you download.
The actual website is https://www.balena.io/etcher/
A few ideas:
Are you sure you downloaded the USB Installer Image and not the DVD ISO? Note: this link is copied from the tails installer page just to use as a reference, but regardless, I don’t encourage anyone to download it directly from this link.
Consider trying Etcher to create the USB from the Installer Image. It’s recommended in the tails installer page.
It’s pretty simple, few less options than Universal USB Installer.
Does your USB key have a second partition? Some manufactures include a “convenient” extra partition with some tools. Make sure you fully erase your USB key before installing.
Just use balena etcher. It's a really easy to use tool on Linux. You can download it from the website if its not in the repository. https://www.balena.io/etcher/?ref=etcher_footer
It won't work for Windows usbs though but I don't think any usb tool on linux does, if we are just talking about gui at least. Good luck.
So there's a few things here:
- You need to be a part of the microsoft insider program to get a proper version for 3B+ right now specifically - for the love of god don't just download a client from somewhere, causes more hassle than it's worth.
- You need to access the download here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsiot the site will prompt you if you're not an insider.
- Once you have the package downloaded, you can use a program like Etcher: https://www.balena.io/etcher/ to properly flash a SD card or USB to boot from.
As a side, you won't get an insider providing you with a link. It doesn't work like that as you get a unique download link while logged in, which then needs to match up with the Microsoft ID you use when logging into the client itself.
Just as a quick edit, going into the page there's currently this build:
"RaspberryPi 3B+ Technical Preview Build 17661"
However, it's an unsupported technical preview, so they have it as a build but it's not gone through much in the way of checks. For context, current main IoT build is marked version 1809 (Jan 2019), so the 3B+ build is a few versions back development wise.
You'll find you can't really use the main builds that are generally easier to access, just as Microsoft makes them compatible only really for Raspberry Pi 2/3 boards, not B+.
> "The Raspberry Pi 3B+ has limited compatability with Windows 10 IoT Core. Please view the release notes for more information. For a more complete Windows 10 IoT Core experience, please use a Raspberry Pi 3B, DragonBoard, Up2 Board or NXP device."
I've had problems with Rufus for the past year, so I've started using balenaEtcher to create my Linux flash-drives instead. That's also open-source, and I find it much more user-friendly.
Also, double-check that you have secure-boot disabled in your BIOS boot settings.
I had the same problem. From what I read, the issue lies in the fact that POP does not play well with GRUB. (that may or may not be the case, I'm no expert. But the article recommended the following...)
I had to use Balena Etch to make my USB. once I did, the install went through very smoothly.
Linux is a kernel on which a lot of operating systems are built. Android also uses Linux as its kernel.
Desktop and server systems mostly use the same basic set of software, but different software management systems. Some are designed to be more reliable, some are designed to run faster, some are designed to have the latest software.
The most popular desktop distribution is Ubuntu, take a look. You can download it for free, as most other Linux distributions, flash it to a USB drive with software like Etcher, boot your computer from this drive and use the system even without installing it on your hard drive.
As for "best for gaming", not yet. Some games run slightly better, some don't work at all. Overall advantage is mostly due to lack of all the telemetry, the system being more lightweight overall, and that it doesn't do anything in background unless you told it to do so.
Don't use Rufus, it messes with the bootloader and apparently doesn't work with UEFI and arch. The ISO is already capable of booting via both UEFI and legacy bios so there is no need for a fancy tools like Rufus. Just use a dumb disk copier like etcher which will not mess up the included bootloader.
do you have a pendrive ready?
Download an application called etcher. https://www.balena.io/etcher/ .
after installing the application, open it and select the pen drive and then select the windows 7 iso.
Then reboot your PC and enter your BIOS settings. Search for boot options and then select your pendrive.
Once you boot from your pendrive, the windows 7 installer will begin. Let me know if you have doubts.
You could use a virtual machine, but you could also use a LiveUSB.
You can pick an OS/Distribution like Manjaro or Kubuntu and download the ISO, then use Etcher to put that ISO on a USB stick. Reboot and figure out how to boot from a USB on your system (pro-tip if you're using Windows on UEFI, hold shift while pressing restart and follow the menus until you get to the 'boot into UEFI' option).
When you boot into the USB, an installer might show up but just close out of it and you'll have a fully working Plasma desktop that you can try out and play with. The performance will be better than a VM, but limited by the fact that it's running off of a flash drive.
As long as you don't run the installer, simply restart and remove the USB and you'll boot back into your normal OS with no changes!
Try BalenaEtcher, it the only thing I use under Windows to create install USB for anything Linux, Pinephone, RPi, etc... If that doesn't work, check Device Manager and see if you can see the USB stick or Disk Management. You might have to use the command line tool to wipe and create a new partition table on the device, sometimes a failed write messes up a USB stick pretty bad, on very rare occasions I have had to throw them away because of it.
You can give it a try without even installing it, so you can test the performance for yourself; you can choose one of the many distros, download it's .iso file, and with a flash-drive you're okay with wiping run a program like balenaEtcher, which is open-source.
Warning: if you ask for recommendations for what distro to use you'll just get a list of every distro under the Sun from 100 people
Keep the flash-drive in and reboot, press the key it says you should press to enter the BIOS options as soon as the screen turns on, and select to boot from the flash-drive. You can try it out there for most distros, and everything that's done will be deleted upon rebooting.
Before trying to repair the OS, retrieve your important files! Any attempts to repair or recover the OS could delete all files.
- On a different PC, download Ubuntu 32-bit ISO file.
- Burn the ISO file to a CD or DVD (right-click and select Burn Disc Image) or to a USB drive (use program Etcher).
- Boot from that drive on your XP computer. Choose the option to "try" Ubuntu, DO NOT install Ubuntu.
- When it's booted up, open the file manager, find your hard drive (may be called "XX GB volume"), open the Documents and Settings folder, and copy your important files to a USB flash drive. If you're booting Ubuntu through USB you have to use a second USB flash drive.
Usually there's a one time boot menu option. Usually pressing the F12 key. Might be different depending on the computer you have. Also I like to use balena etcher.
Why wouldn't you just install BalenaEtchter or ROSA and use the GUI?
BTW, the command would be:
sudo dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=1M status=progress
The sudo is important here... Are you sure it's /dev/sda ??? Because typically that would be your primary storage drive and not your USB drive.
Think of it as investing into yourself. If you need help just message me and I'll walk you through any issue. Really its very simple. I know it may not seem like it cause you're just typing shit you don't understand. But you'll understand it a little more in the end and have a better node.
Head over to Debian. Download the amd64 version, then download balena etcher. Put your usb in and etch it, should take just a few min. Plug into hptc boot up, choose graphical install (later it will ask a similar question check the xfce option be sure to unchecke the Debian desktop one). It will install and after that and removing USB you'll have to put in password you setup, the user password. Then you'll have a totally functional desktop environment with an internet browser.
Goto this its a pretty good guide from glance and should get you up and running in no time.
Don't bother with screen until after the daemon is synced just dont exit out of the terminal.
Mint provides instructions on how to verify your downloaded image.
Also, as @jochen17 says, errors could occur when writing the image to a usb stick. Balena Etcher does a validation run after writing to the stick. I've found Etcher to be a very reliable way to create install sticks.
This is known as a kernel panic (what a coincidence: one image on wikipedia has the exact same error). First things I'd try: a new pendrive; and/or using etcher.
#1 Replace your hard drive with an SSD. This is the single best thing you can do for performance.
#2 Download the ISO from the distro of your choice. Burn to USB (I like https://www.balena.io/etcher/)
#3 Boot from the USB (make sure secure boot is off), click the install shortcut if it doesn't launch automatically. Choose to erase and use entire existing drive. This will ERASE your DATA. If you have something you want to not have erased, you should back it up BEFORE you do this.
#4 Reboot into your new distro. Update, upgrade, and install any proprietary drivers.
#5 Enjoy your new linux distro.
You should not use Kali as your main os. Try Ubuntu instead.
Flash your usb using etcher https://www.balena.io/etcher/
What is this win32 tool you are talking about?
You don't need to overwrite your drive from win10 you boot from USB into Linux and install it from there.
The only thing you have to worry about is the firmware. All drivers are included except nvidia's proprietary one.
Disable secure boot, fast boot, and tpm device encryption(where applicable) in the bios.
Write the iso with etcher.
Let it verify the write/data.
Then attempt 18.04 again, or..
Previous Stable:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-16.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso
Beta:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/disco-desktop-amd64.iso
You can use Etcher. It's available for free for Windows, Linux, and Mac. And it's pretty straightforward.
There's also a guide on how to use it with Raspberry Pi. It's pretty much the same process but with the Kali .img or .iso file. (And instead of SD card use USB, it's the same process)
Hi there! I’d suggest that you start by deciding if you’ll partition your laptop’s internal disk (storage) or an external (usb3, at least) disk. If possible, backup all your data on the disk you’ll be using to the one you’ll leave untouched. This will save you a lot of headaches later. If you decide to partition your system disk, you should create a windows recovery drive.
Windows 10 and 11 actually have pretty decent partition managers which, importantly, play nice with more fiddly Windows file systems like NTFS, so I recommend you use the Windows Disk Manager to shrink an existing Windows partition and make room to install Linux. For practical purposes, volume here means the same as partition. If all goes well, your file manager will now show a smaller disk with all your files, and there will be an unformatted partition on the medium.
Download and install balena Etcher to create live USB thumbdrives for your favourite distributions. This step Is worth getting right, so I suggest you get a few spare thumbdrives and make bootable media for at least your top three.
Ubuntu should be one, and probably should be your choice to install, but Pop!_OS, Elementary, and Mint are all worth a shot. Fedora and OpenSUSE are great, but you’ll have to spend more time in the respective documentations and community forums to learn how to properly manage them. For now, stay away from Manjaro and Arch. They’re great for learning more about Linux but you need to be able to keep a running system to learn the basics first.
What Firmware? There are many. The process is the same once you pick one. Download it, extract with something like 7zip until you have an ".img" file. Then use BalenaEtcher to write it to a MicroSD card. Then just put the MicroSD card into your device. That's all there is to it really.
yes, you'll need a write tool like Balena Etcher to make it a bootable usb.
Other commenter posted that Windows is free, not so much if you are paying for a new license for an installation.
HiveOS & Minerstat OS are completely free if only running 1 rig, that includes remote monitoring through a web browser & mobile apps. And most distros of linux are free use, you won't get the remote monitoring tools with a straight linux install though.
I tried to flash with balenaEtcher and with the official Raspberry pi Imager. The image won't boot.
On the Buster OS, there is no package for Steamlink. After the update, the command sudo apt install steamlink will result with the message "no package found".I tried to manually add a source to the packages and run install. Which will install the Steamlink but not the drivers needed. Also, I tried to fix this problem but had no luck (or skill,Ii did not find the final fix).
Yeah, I'm saying that you need a USB, and you can do it with a standard Windows PC.
I don't have a video tutorial, but here are the steps you need to follow:
- Grab a USB drive, at least 1-2GB, that you don't care about (all contents will be wiped after you do this, so make sure there's nothing important on it). Connect it to your computer.
- Download odysseyn1x from this link
- Download Balena Etcher
- Open Etcher - select the ISO file you downloaded, select your USB drive, and click flash.
Once it's done flashing, reboot your computer. When it's booting up, press the f8 or f12 key (depends on your computer - you can press them both if you want). When you see an option to select your boot device, select your USB drive.
At that point, it'll boot up - you can select checkra1n, and follow the instructions on screen (re: plugging in your phone, pressing the button combos for DFU, etc).
Doesn't require any more Linux knowledge than using home assistant as you are now.
Balena Etcher is a Windows program that will install Home Assistant directly onto the disk for you. Then you turn it on and access it the same way you have been, from the browser.
You can follow the walkthrough and download the image here
It's not difficult. In fact it's probably easier to get started this way than doing it through VirtualBox as you originally did!
Download etcher, select your ISO and flash to the USB.
It's super straightforward how to use it, then just restart and load the boot menu to load from the USB, or edit the bios to load usb first, same as you would do for a DVD.
Minecraft Java Edition uses the OpenGL API for rendering, as Java Edition runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and OpenGL is the only API natively supported on all 3. However, AMD's Windows driver is pretty slow when it comes to OpenGL (most other games use DirectX's D3D, so AMD puts most of its development effort there.)
A good benchmark to test hardware vs. software is to put Ubuntu on a USB (use Etcher to flash the USB with the image), boot the USB, and run Minecraft. Most likely, you'll get way higher FPS, as AMD's Linux driver has a MUUUUCH more optimized OpenGL Implementation.
Minecraft Bedrock Edition uses D3D, and shouldn't suffer from this issue. Also Minecraft 1.17 Java Edition reworked some of it's rendering code, which might help, though it's still OpenGL.
Yeah no worries my bad. Btw I forgot to ask you what mac do you have ? Because I don't think this method will work easily on M1 models.
If you're not using M1, follow the instructions below:
You'll need a USB flash drive(WHICH WILL BE ERASED) and some patience(it may take a while)
Download BalenaEtcher and Ubuntu I assume you have a macbook pro around 2012 so the latest version of ubuntu should work.
You'll need to copy BalenaEtcher to your Application folder and then open it. You'll then see its menu. Select the ubuntu image you just downloaded and select your USB drive(WHICH AGAIN, WILL BE ERASED). Click okay and type in your password so that it can format your drive and turn it into a so called "bootable" drive.
When it's finished, restart your Mac and hold "CMD" and "R" keys when you hear the boot chime to go into recovery mode, then select ubuntu to boot. It should start up ubuntu. You'll be prompted to try or install ubuntu, select try.
Then you can go to the top left corner and type in disk manager (not sure how it's called exactly on ubuntu but you'll know it when you see it) and use it to format your drive. ALL DATA WILL BE LOST AND THIS STEP IS NOT REVERSIBLE !
Be careful and I hope this explanation helped !
Download the Windows 10 ISO file, flash it onto a flash drive (personally I use Etcher), then boot from the flash drive and install Windows 10.
Si queres descartar 100% los pens hacelo booteable con el etcher
hace un reset de cmos asi queda todo default y no configures nada
Si sigue fallando, proba con un modulo solo de ram asumiendo que tengas mas de uno, primero uno y despues el otro
Siempre el USB conectado al mother, proba mas de un puerto
I would try a different SD Card, make sure you are using Balena Etcher to write the octopi image to the card, when t finishes and remounts it you will get a prompt to format.
DO NOT FORMAT IT
Sabia, o rufus é meio bugado. Tenta o etcher qualquer coisa. Mas manda seu amigo testar antes de te mandar, pq às vezes buga.
Ah, e recomendo baixar uma versão atualizada. Já tive problema por ficar usando versão antiga.
Also, if you are having issues finding a different computer, there are a couple more things you can try.
The first option is a bootable live linux on a USB. You can download an iso, for example for Linux Mint, and use Balena Etcher to write the iso to a USB. Then you can turn off your PC, plug in the USB, and boot to it. In the live linux, close out any installers, open up a terminal, and type sudo apt update then sudo apt install adb fastboot. After that, the fastboot and adb packages should be installed, and you can try running a command on the phone after plugging it into the computer.
If that doesn't work (For me, Linux and Windows acted the same), there is another method of getting another computer - you can go to a library. Take that USB drive, and go to a library. (You don't even need a library card for this, lol). Pick a computer out of the way, and shut it down. Then take your USB, plug it in, and boot to it. Then repeat the apt commands to install adb (live linux is temporary, anything you do on it is erased when you shut down the PC), and try fastboot again. Now get out before anyone notices :)
Many distros have their own, like Linux Mint has USB Image Writer, but most major distros have their own and the Fedora one would be fine. Otherwise, like in Windows, Balena Etcher is probably the best all around one. https://www.balena.io/etcher/
The only time you are going to run into trouble is making a Windows Install ISO... It just doesn't work without jumping through a ton of hoops or using Ventoy.
Ah, that’s the issue. You can’t just copy the files and expect it to boot: you have to also format the drive into partitions and put the right files on the right partition.
Luckily, there are tools called disc imaging programs that will do this for you. You just plug in your USB, select your disc image file, and tell the program to flash your USB.
BalenaEtcher is the easiest one, and Rufus is a more powerful one. Try using Etcher first since this is your first time and its instructions are pretty self-explanatory:
Then try booting the drive again.
Ok I'll clarify a few things. Don't worry about BIOS or UEFI, you don't need to know what they are to boot Linux Mint. All you need is to correctly flash the iso to the USB and boot from it. Also, it may be recommended to disable the "Secure Boot" option in your BIOS if you have one.
To properly flash the USB I would recommend a very simple tool, balenaEtcher. Simply download it and open it up, it's pretty straight forward to use. Select the ISO, select the USB and it will flash it.
Because it is going to create a Linux file system on the USB (ext4), Windows being Windows will not recognize it and will prompt you to format the USB after it finished. DO NOT do this, this is just Windows being stupid.
Once you have that flashed, you will be able to boot like you tried before. Plug it in, go into your BIOS boot menu and select the USB, that's it.
I recommend Etcher (https://www.balena.io/etcher/) for the easiest painless way to burn the ISO.
NOTE: ALL DATA ON FLASHDRIVE IS DELETED! THERE IS NO WAY TO GET IT BACK! TAKE ALL FILES OFF OF FLASHDRIVE! THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE SO IT MUST BE IN ALL CAPS.
I had the same issue as you last month on two hotspot and replacing resolve the syncing issue. SD card was worn out from all the block chain syncing
Full step-by-step instructions below from their support
Taking a look, I can see the sync is going very slowly, so it's having a very hard time catching up since it's syncing blocks about as fast as new ones are being made (so it's perpetually playing catch-up). It looks like the SD card is likely towards the end of its write cycle life expectancy, which can cause behavior like this. While it may catch up eventually as-is, it's hard to say when or if it will happen again. It's currently around 300 blocks behind.
If it's something you want to give a try, I might suggest swapping that out with a new one and see if that helps.
Here are the steps to do that:
Unscrew the Hotspot from the bottom of the unit using a T8 bit screwdriver. Be careful not to disconnect the antenna wire attaching the top of the Hotspot to the bottom.
Carefully remove the installed MicroSD card located by the fan, tweezers or needle-nose pliers may help with this.
Download and install a program to Flash the card such as Etcher, if needed: https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Download the image file to Flash: https://helium-nextgate.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/artifacts/2021.03.09.0-sdcard.img.gz Unzip the file. On some operating systems, you may need to gunzip the file via the CLI: https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-unzip-a-gz-file-in-linux
Format the MiscroSD card into the ExFAT format.
- Use Etcher to Flash the newly formatted SD card with the file.
Carefully Re-insert the MicroSD card.
Plug the Hotspot back in and let it boot up. This can be done prior to screwing the Hotspot back together.
If successful, everything should boot up normally!
Here is a tutorial I wrote for windows:
FIRST STEP (JAILBREAKING WITH CHECKRA1N):
I'll tell you a very easy way & it will not take long time.
1: Go and download Odysseyn1x from release page (amd64 iso is for 64-bit CPUs (AMD and Intel) and the i686 one is for 32-bit CPUs.
2: Go and download balenaEtcher (It is very easy to use)
3: Unzip Odysseyn1x and run balenaEtcher, chose the iso from unzipped folder and chose your USB flash ( if u have spare one even if it is 1GB), then press flash (It will not take long time, maximum 2 minutes) and DO NOT WORRY REGARDING POPUP BOXES for formatting flash, just cancel them.
4: PowerOFF/Restart your computer and press F10/F11/F12 (Depends on your PC/Laptop) to enter boot menu and chose to boot from your USB.
5: To jailbreak, chose option 1 (Checkra1n) and if it asked you for your passcode enter it when you plug your phone (It is better to remove passcode from settings and press trust whenever popup comes to screen), follow all steps on screen (It will put your phone in recovery mode, then guide you how to put it on DFU mode, now it will jailbreak it)....PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT OPEN CHECKRA1N LOADER when the device is now jailbroken AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE wait for a minute or two when your device is up to see the loader AND DON'T OPEN IT.
6: Go back to main menu, chose option #2 (Odysseyra1n), follow on screen steps...thats it. You will find SILEO is now installed, open Sileo and do all updates if required, INSTALL LIBHOOKER, when done and respring, TURN OFF DEVICE AND TURN ON AGAIN AND JAILBREAK AGAIN USING STEP #5.
7: Install NewTerm, type this command sudo /etc/rc.d/libhooker && sudo ldrestart and your device will do LDRESTART, and you are all set.
It's hard to advise something without logs or at least a screenshot. On a side note, Manjaro is not the best choice for beginners. It is powerful and flexible but it also requires a certain level of expertise. I'd suggest flashing Ubuntu (I would choose Ubuntu MATE specifically because its interface would make more sense for a Windows user) to a thumb drive using Etcher, entering the BIOS boot menu, and booting from usb. The process is straightforward from there.
You load any Linux distro onto a USB stick, like Ubuntu. You can use something like Etcher.
Then you can use hdparm from a terminal.
The reason you need to use this procedure is because of SSD "wear leveling". When you write to an SSD, the data is spread out all over the available chips. If you have a "1TB" SSD, it might actually have 1.2TB of space on the chips. As you write, the data is moved around, you have no control over this. If you write the same logical block twice, the SSD may decide to remap that to another part of the chip. Your old data is still in the old location. This is why they're unsafe.
Most modern SSDs already encrypt all the data on them, transparently. Secure erase rotates the encryption keys, making sure that all the old writes are unreadable, without having to overwrite the actual media.
First download Checkn1x:
Go to this and click assets then install the checkn1x.zip file.
Next download Balena Etcher and run it. Unzip any files you need to.
Flash the USB drive with the checkn1x.iso file you get when unzipping the checkn1x.zip file
Next you'll have to do a quick Google search on how to boot from a USB on your computer. Make sure to enter the name. To sum it up you'll have to go to the bios. Disable secure boot and then boot from the USB. I would also recommend searching YouTube.
Then run the jailbreak, i hope this helps and enjoy the jailbreaking community. A quick tip, try to keep tweaks to a minimum. If you start downloading a lot of tweaks things may get very slow and unstable. Feel free to comment any further questions or checkout the r/jailbreak discord server.
I just did this about a week ago. I used Ubuntu Server 20.04.
I used balenaEtcher to flash ubuntu onto the sd card. Stuck the SD card into the pi and powered up. Then On my computer logged into the router to get the ip of the pi.
Then just SSH in with ssh [email protected] and the password is ubuntu.
Go to arcadepunks dot com. Find the pi image you like. Download it. Then go to:
Download that to write the image to the sdcard.
Then, like most things: insert and enjoy.
Linux is a kernel. It basically means it's the core of an operating system (the thing that allow software and hardware to communicate). Linux distributions are complete operating systems (that is: Linux + many other tools, libraries and applications). Android, for example, is a Linux distribution for smartphones. Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for desktop or laptop computers.
Anyway, I'm glad you're want to try "Linux" :-)
As a new user I really suggest Ubuntu MATE. Other people will tell you to start with Manjaro, or Ubuntu (the original, vanilla version) or PopOS (a modified Ubuntu) or something.
They're all free and open source, and they're all great operating systems. I'm only suggesting "Ubuntu MATE" because it is aimed at people like you. The welcome utility will guide you and when you feel comfortable, you'll have a lot of options to customize the desktop look and feel.
It's a great first distro. Grab an ISO and use Etcher (https://www.balena.io/etcher/) to put it on a USB stick and you can try it out!
When installing it (or any other popular distro) you'll have the option for dual-booting (which is what you want).
You HAVE TO realize that it will involve partitioning your hard drive (since you need, at least one partition for Windows and the other for Linux). Be sure of what you do, your partitions won't have the same name they have on Windows (C:, D:, E:). Read tutorials on how to partition a drive properly for dual booting.
My advice is: backup anything important, so even if you wipe out your drive by accident.
Also, read other posts from this subreddit, these kind of questions are asked all the time.
Anyway, welcome!
The PocketGo 2 uses a Linux filesystem that's not recognised on Windows, which is why it wrongly detects the card as "damaged".
For now, download either the stock firmware or Rogue CFW file for the PocketGo 2 and then use balenaEtcher to flash it to your SD card.
Did not understand... are the usb ports completely broken ? (you can't even read data from them with your Windows, can't use usb mouse etc.) Or just they can not detect the usb device to boot from ?
If they still work you can try Etcher https://www.balena.io/etcher/ to make bootable device.
If ports are completely broken, you can remove the hard drive and put it temporary on another computer. After you install Ubuntu, you put it back on the laptop.
Try Ubuntu MATE, it's a light and customizable version of Ubuntu aimed at beginners. You can try it live if you have a USB key: Download the ISO and transfer it to the USB key using Etcher (then search the web for how to select a boot device on your computer, it's usually by pressing F1 or F12 or something on startup).
When trying it without installing, you can check if you WIFI adapter is recognized and see how everything runs in general.
Ubuntu yes. To add onto this:
I would recommend using a USB drive, not a DVD of possible, USB is faster, and the industry standard. To create the bootable install media I recommend Etcher. You will need to know how to boot into the bios and select the USB drive to boot from (This process is different depending on the device, if you have a pre built from Dell/HP/etc look up a guide for your specific model, if you have a home built computer you will need to lookup the key for your motherboard) Once you see the Ubuntu menu it should be very straight forward to install.
Let me know if you need any help!
I believe you will not need to switch, that appears to be the integrated GPU for that system (after a quick google search, you may wish to explore further).
I'd highly encourage downloading the Mint ISO and using https://www.balena.io/etcher/ to burn to USB. Make sure to turn secure boot off in your bios, and set it to boot from USB first. Boot, and you can play around in the live image to see if you like Mint.
Your computer does not have to handle Windows 10. There's other operating systems that are secure out there, like Manjaro for instance. Once you evacuated your data and got it on a separate drive, disconnect the drive with your data so only the drive with Windows 7 is connected.
Then you need a Manjaro USB...
https://osdn.net/dl/manjaro/manjaro-kde-19.0.2-200311-linux54.iso
Save both on your desktop or somewhere you can easily access, just not in the usb you are going to use to make manjaro bootable
Run etcher and select the USB(MAKE SURE IT IS EMPTY, EVERYTHING ON IT WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE) and the ISO. And simply make it bootable, pretty straight forward. Then boot in and scroll down with arrow keys to boot
My constant is Xubuntu hands down. Runs super minimal with ram yet you don't lose functionality.
Give it a shot :)
I also recommend burning your usb with Etcher, makes it fool proof.
Highly encourage making live USB's and testing the environments. All of the ones you listed would be great to try out. Just download the iso and burn to usb using https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Well first of all, do you want to keep your W10?
Second, for a first time linux user I suggest either Linux Mint (Cinnamon) or Ubuntu.
So download either one, and download Etcher. Then plug in a USB drive, and select the Linux distro of your choice in Etcher, and the drive, and then press "Flash".
To get it to boot on your USB drive, you probably need to go into BIOS and change your boot order.
Hey check this Open Source, Cross Platform for Linux , Windows , Mac Os
https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases
request don't use Rufus on Windows it's not good trust me Buddy
When the computer starts up, at POST when you see asus come up it should have a keyboard button associated with boot menu. Use this and then select the USB flash drive. If that does not work then there may be an issue with the way the drive is configured. Try either letting the windows media creation tool create the flash drive or instead of rufus try etcher.
It's a Unix command line utility to copy binary data from one file or device to another. (Everything's a "file" in Unix, so you can point dd at, say, /dev/sdc, if that's your USB stick, and it will copy everything from the input file to the drive /dev/sdc.)
The joke is it stands for "data destroyer," because telling it the wrong output file will easily wipe a drive (and immediately, since the partition table is at the beginning of the drive and so are most of the file system records).
Etcher is a graphical tool that does the same thing, and I rather like it. It will copy the Ubuntu ISO to a USB drive and let you boot from it.
Also get a Linux Live USB and boot to that (Steps a basically get a Linux ISO (Your PC is probably 64 bit so get that but if that doesn't work get the 32 bit image) Ubuntu is a good choice Ubuntu Download Link , Then get Etcher Link ,plug in a USB stick (The USB will be wiped when putting the iso on the Stick) , Open Etcher , find the iso and click burn/Etch/Large button, Wait for it to finish, Turn off PC, turn on, run finger up and down the f keys (f1-f12) to get into BIOS, go to boot options or Override Boot Options and go to your usb and hit enter then it should boot, click try out Ubuntu)
Honestly I would install Manjaro on your hard drive anyways, just shrink the windows partition, leaving some 20gb free for it. Stuff to download:
https://osdn.net/dl/manjaro/manjaro-kde-18.0.4-stable-x86_64.iso
Save both on your desktop or somewhere you can easily access, just not in the usb you are going to use to make manjaro bootable
Run etcher and select the USB(MAKE SURE IT IS EMPTY, EVERYTHING ON IT WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE) and the ISO. And simply make it bootable, pretty straight forward
Once you boot into the USB, launch the installer and follow the prompt to install alongside windows, it should be really straight forward from here
When you fully install manjaro, there are three things you want to do.
- Open up system settings, go to hardware configuration. You want to install the video-nvidia driver, the rest have to be uninstalled
It has to look like mine since we both have nvidia cards: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/421767863582588939/578830277149982730/DeepinScreenshot_select-area_20190517022431.png
Once that is done, go to the bottom right and restart!
Once you restarted you can simply open up steam, go to cities skylines, download and run it! See if it still occurs! I am here if you get stuck!
To be honest, there's only one way to find out...
There would be no harm at all in booting up a "Live USB" and seeing if all the hardware works. The cool thing about Linux is that most of the drivers and stuff are contained in the kernel, so you won't need to go hunting for them (including Intel graphics drivers and wifi driver).
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To make this work, just download a distro of your choice. I recommend something like Ubuntu (or one of the many flavours thereof - Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Mate etc.) or PoP!_OS for a beginner.
Download BalenaEtcher on your Mac, and burn the image onto USB with that. A 128gb stick is overkill IMO. A 4 or 8gb stick will be more than sufficient.
Boot it up and test it out.
If you decide you want to install it, you can certainly try using the HDD that's in there already. The Linux installer should be able to format the drive automatically as it needs to be.
And if it fails at that stage, then you can ask for more help - we'll burn that bridge when we come to it!
https://www.balena.io/etcher/ ściągasz to
http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/ubuntu-dvd/xubuntu/releases/18.04/release/xubuntu-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso ściągasz to
wsadzasz pendrive, w programie wybierasz xubuntu-itd.iso, włożonego pendrajwa, nagrywasz
resetujesz komputer, wciskasz f9 jak szalona i wybierasz pendrajwa. Potem w zasadzie dalej-dalej-dalej.
Serio trudne nie jest, jeśli chce Ci się w to bawić. Ale jak Ci się nie chce, to nie polecam :)
instead of tuxboot, try "etcher" (or win32imager), and clone it to usb. https://www.balena.io/etcher/
you may also want to disable any "fast boot" options in the uefi/bios settings, and see if that helps as well.
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A thing you can do before using etcher(or any other tool again), is to use the command-line of "diskpart"(in windows), select the usb disk, and issue a full "clean" command to zero-out the usb device completely (which should clear out any "end-of-device" GPT reserve/backup tables).
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I think the problem generally is the tuxboot tool is not doing its job properly..
Only one can be on that stick at a time as that stick gets formatted when you write the image on it with Etcher. (You have to use a tool like Etcher. Just copying the .iso file to your disk won't work) You can of course always just write another image on it as many times as you like.
CERN has a list of their supported Linux products here. They are of course a largely particle physics based collaboration, but I would be surprised if they were not either a standard themselves or influenced by standards in physics as a whole. It seems they do support the use of both Scientific Linux and CentOS 7.
But really, if all you will need is LaTeX and gnuplot, you can use any Linux distribution.
I would probably follow the advice of the previous poster and try Fedora, as it is the most closely related distro to Scientific Linux and CentOS that is oriented towards use as a desktop (as opposed to a server) and contains reasonably new packages. It also uses the same package manager, which is probably the largest difference between most distros.
(I assume you will be using this laptop for general use as well, hence newer packages may be a significant selling point.)
You also might try Etcher, a burning software that seems to come recommended from a lot of sources. In some cases, difficulties with installation can be caused by what software is used.
(Many distros have unusual quirks, or offer their images in an unusual or non-standardized format, which requires image writing software to account for these quirks when writing those images.)
I believe this is the latest for braswell.
https://galliumos.org/releases/nightly/galliumos-braswell-bismuth-3.0alpha2-20180705T015135Z.iso
https://galliumos.org/releases/nightly/
Your sound will likely go out if you install a normal OS without the gallium kernel.
Your listed bios ain't the current one:
http://download.msi.com/bos_exe/mb/7A32v1K.zip
But that looks like a memory error. Test that first. Write to usb, boot, let it run.
https://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-usb.zip
Otherwise it's either cpu or motherboard and you'll have to take it apart and reassemble it gently. Torquing the shit out of the 1st gen boards ends badly.
Okay, here's the link to the latest raspbian version, give that a download. https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest Idk if you have Etcher already but if not here https://www.balena.io/etcher/ Etcher lets you put flash your OSs onto an sd real easy. Install etcher and open it, put your sd card in and select the raspbarian os you downloaded (you don't even have to unzip it, etcher can just take the zip). Hit flash and once it finishes put your sd card into your pi. After some setup you'll get to the desktop. That desktop should have minecraft and mathematica and everything else on it in the menu.
Lemme know how it goes!
Current bios is 1.46. If you are not that version:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version
Then update.
Write to usb.
Boot to it.
Test again.
Após usar o dd, é bom rodar o comando sync várias vezes para garantir que não tem nada preso na RAM. Eu precisei fazer isso para copiar a ISO como bootável.
Ou siga o conselho do outro user e use Etcher, que sempre pegou certinho além de ser mais versátil.
If you're using Xubuntu, you can create the same USB live stick using the start-up disk creator (it does the same as Fedora image writer), that's probably installed by default.
You can also try Etcher https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Or unetbootin.
About making the USB, you could try Etcher, I have been using that on all OS perfectly, make bootable USB a breeze.
Swap partition you don't really need. You can always make swapfile like so, it is more flexible and you don't have to worry - turn on, off, expand, ...
If you want to completely remove Windows, go ahead and choose to install the OS on that disk/ use gparted/other tool to wipe it. You will need /boot/efi/ for EFI boot (this one I actually don't remember how Solus is different, so you have to look at above comment :D, but generally the same. fat32, 512MB), / for root, and /home/ if you want to have a separated home folder (highly suggest so). /home/ gonna be equal to C:\Users/ (so it is a good idea to keep it as big as you need, but if you want to make /home/ on the third hard drive you have, it's completely possible too! the idea of having a separated /home/ so if you mess up something and have to reinstall your distro, you will have all your data and your dotfiles (read more about this somewhere on the web :D).
That's all I have and I hope you have a good time running linux. Also, if I make any mistake, please help to fix me!
Syncrobits have an SD card. Here's what I got from their support team:
To restore your SD card, you will have to flash it with the latest firmware.
Here you can find what the latest firmware is: https://fwd.syncrob.it/cham/latest_stable.json and then compose the download link like the example below.
For example, with the latest firmware, the link should be: https://fwd.syncrob.it/cham/chameleonos-cham-raspberrypi4arm64-2022.01.29.0.img.xz
For flashing your new sd card, you can use BalenaEtcher: https://www.balena.io/etcher/
I would try using Etcher to burn the image to USB.
You should consider using something newer than Solaris 10, there are open source options. OpenIndiana and Triblix are probably the best laptop options. They are running a SunOS 5.11 kernel-based from the Solaris 10 kernel. Here are the links:
It could've been powered off incorrectly resulting in the image corrupting - you can quite easily flash a new image on the device to test this out though :)! You'll lose any data you had on your BBB though.
You can download the latest image from the official website here. For the Beagle bone black, this image will work. Use a tool to flash a microSD card with the image you've just downloaded - Etcher is very popular for this & what is recommended on Beagle Board.
Once your microSD is finished writing, you can insert it into your BBB black. Hold down the S2 button while applying power to boot from the microSD. Voila, you should boot into Debian (with no graphical interface). If you'd like to then flash the image to your eMMC module, follow this steps after:
Login to default account (debian:temppwd). Edit /boot/uEnv.txt using nano to set the flasher to run on next boot:
sudo nano /boot/uEnv.txt
Change this:
> ##enable BBB: eMMC Flasher:
cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh
To this (uncomment the line of code):
> ##enable BBB: eMMC Flasher: cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh
If you have an internet connection, you can now run these commands to update the flasher script:
cd/opt/scripts/
git pull
Reboot your device (sudo reboot). Upon boot up, the image will begin flashing onto your eMMC. When done, the device will power down - make sure you remove your microSD card at this point BEFORE booting back up. Once removed, power on, and you have successfully flashed the image to your eMMC :)!
Hope any of this helps :)
Sd card is full because windows doesn't see the linux partition, it only see's a tiny fat partition, typically the 'boot stuff'.
These setups are flashed to the sd card using Balena Etcher mostly..
I believe you can use rufus as well but etcher is the most commonly used flasher besides the pi flasher program..
I would google Arcade Punks.. If you do flash the sd card.. word of warning.. MAke sure you select the correct drive! You can lose all the data on one of your windows hard drives if you do not pay attention to which one you've selected.
Get a new SD card. Keep the old card as you there are ways of mounting it, probably not fixing it though.
Download Balena etcher. https://www.balena.io/etcher/
You can either flash a new empty OS to the sd card There are options as to which one you want to go with, Retropie is 1 of 3 or 4 you can go with.
Or find a "less than reputable" iso that has been made specifically for your needs. I believe they have table top images built there at arcade punks.
Absolutely! Simply install a free and open source tool called etcher. In fact, its so simple all you have to do is select the target usb flash drive, your copy of your iso file, and click flash!
You can download it here:
Oh that's really odd, I hate to be that guy but is there any chance it's a driver problem? What I would do to test this is to download a Linux live iso file and flash it to a USB. Then boot into Linux and see if the problem persists. If it works normally then the issue is a software problem within windows. If you need help on making the USB just download a live image of ubuntu from ubuntu.com and use https://www.balena.io/etcher/ to flash it. Then boot into bios and select the USB as the boot device. When you're done just shut down your PC, pull out the USB, then reboot. just be sure not to install ubuntu, select the "try ubuntu" option.
Why do you need to use the terminal for these operations? Is your GUI messed up?
To install Brasero, enter the command ‘sudo apt install brasero’ in your terminal then find the application in your OS menu. Etcher can be found at https://www.balena.io/etcher/
You are using the word “boot” but that doesn’t imply anything about what is installed. What OS is currently installed on your system? What OS do you want to install?
I'm not sure where you are going with the FYI.
What I would like to know is if there is a special reason that rufus is recommended and if there is an alternative in Linux. Normally when I make a bootable USB I use BalenaEtcher https://www.balena.io/etcher/
or I could just use the Image Writer build into Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.2
Sure looks like a bad flash drive... Try another one and use Balena Etcher to create it. That tutorial is OK, but I really don't like how he creates the bootable ISO, the dd and rufus methods are quite dated and can cause issues if you don't know exactly what your doing.
So what you're trying to do is create a bootable USB with the windows installer on it. One of the options on Microsoft's website should be to download the ISO file separately. You should then be able to use a tool to create the bootable drive. Etcher supports MacOS. Open up Etcher, select the Windows ISO and the USB drive you want to use, and create the media. The windows media creation tool is essentially a similar program and the ISO in one.
Okay, but how can I find those .exe then and how can I execute it?
I tried to boot from that created stick, but sadly that did not work.... there is no bootable USB medium showed in the boot option menu...... do u have any ideas?
When I created the USB stick with the .iso, I used https://www.balena.io/etcher/ which I use always to flash Debian.isos and stuff like that, always worked out.
That Tool told me during the creation process of the usb medium that the windows.iso doesnt appear to be a bootable iso image... but I proceeded anyway...
So there seems to be something wrong with that .iso file.... :-(
I cloned 2 Indoor Nebra using this app: https://www.balena.io/etcher/
I used a 64 gb Sandisk Extreme. I format to EXFat first on my mac laptop before cloning and that seems to work.
THiS PROCEDURE SHOULD ONLY BE USED FOR MNTD. and RAK v1.5 or v2 hotspots (shipped in 2021 onwards). RAK v1 hotspots (units shipped in 2020) will have a their identity stored on the SD card which must be restored from your backup.
Pre-requisites:
Download Firmware file (works best if kept as a ZIP)
https://mntd.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/2022\_01\_04\_0\_user\_img.zip
Install the balenaEtcher flashing tool you can find Windows, Mac and Linux versions: https://www.balena.io/etcher/
(optional) a new replacement microSD card (we now recommend a Sandisk or Samsung 64GB High Endurance card
Procedure
Power off the miner (unplug from power)
Carefully peel off the tape protecting the microSD card slot, it is below the gold/black sticker on the side of the miner where the antenna is, next to the status LEDs.
Remove microSD card inside, there is a small lip on the bottom part which you can use to pull it out, some people prefer to use tweezers.
Flash card using balenaEtcher app downloaded above directly with the file, this is intuitive:
Select the archive
Select the SD card
- Flash and wait for verification
Replace card making sure it's correctly inserted all the way with brand side down
Power on the miner again.
This video also explains the process: RAK/MNTD Helium Hotspot SD Card Replacement
Ohhh. Don't worry this is a common issue with Linux but there's a quick and easy fix for that.
Download this software. Burn it to a flashdrive, you can use this software to do it.
Now just reboot your PC and follow the installation guide. There's no secret. Then just reinstall Hollow Knight and should run smoothly without any problems anymore.
One step this tutorial missed is VERIFY THE ISO. I apologize for shouting, but this is crucial step, and omitting it makes me question the validity of this entire tutorial. If you did not verify your ISO, do so and then recreate your bootable media. My suggestion: Follow the instructions on the LM website.
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Universal USB Installer is okay (did you verify the .exe you downloaded?), but I recommend using Etcher (or Ventoy).
https://www.balena.io/etcher/
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
If two internal drives in a single machine, then steps are:
0) Stop Windows fast start inside Windows setup.
Ensure machine has boot order USB drive before internal C drive.
1) Download a Linux distro in Windows, save in downloads on C drive
2) Install Etcher from https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Note it is now Balena Etcher
3 Start Balena Etcher, insert USB thumb drive. Install your distro to USB thumb drive. Allow to finish.
4 Close machine down.
- start machine select BOOT from USB drive, let it start.
6 It should find all internal drives plus itself.
- Install Linux to your second internal drive.
If you put Grub on this second drive, you will always have to select which drive to boot from in BIOS. Depending on Distro it may put GRUB into Windows C drive.
- Close down after install. remove USB drive. Restart select which system to boot into.
OP and /u/bonusnoise if either of you are open to testing an interesting experiment that might narrow down your issue, would you please make a bootable USB drive with Linux (say Pop!_OS or Ubuntu) and boot into the live session but don't start the installation process? Once it boots up just close/cancel the OS installer. If it still pulses then it's likely a hardware issue, if not then I suspect W11 is doing something fucky.