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How to automatically mount a removable USB device in a Docker Desktop Linux container
Problem: I want to run a Linux container via Docker Desktop, and have a removable device (e.g. USB stick) automatically mount within the container, when it's inserted.
Up until now, I've been using ...
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My SSD is disconecting and reconecting imediatly on USB-C
I'm using Linux Mint on a HP Pavilion 17-cd1119nf.
Recently, i bought a SSD T7 of samsung.
When i plug it on USB-C, it get disconect then imediatly reconect when i'm using it. It can be when i ...
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How to confirm ready state for an external USB disk before attempting other actions
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Before I plug in my external USB backup drive, my computer is fully booted-up, and I am in my session as root. Because of its location, my USB cord is already plugged in, but I ...
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Trying to create a simple DOS boot USB stick [closed]
Pretty simple request. I'd like to make a bootable USB stick that contains DOS files to let me update the BIOS on an old motherboard.
I know about DOS boot disks from AllBootDisks - https://www....
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IS there a way to find out the Serial, firmware and OS version of a USB device?
I am using the kernel 5.15 based embedded device; have the requirement to figure out the unique field of a USB device, so that I can distinguish when the same vendor, model USB devices(VID,PID are ...
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Present a laptop as a keyboard via usb-c to a raspberry pi
I have a laptop (dual boot linux/windows, if this could help, and with both usb-a and -c ports).
I also have a raspberry pi 5 (I just received this starter pack for my 42th birthday).
I don't have a ...
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USB became read-only after using dd to flash a Linux ISO
I recently used the dd command to flash a Linux ISO to my USB drive. After doing so, the USB drive has become read-only. I suspect that using dd might have caused this issue, as suggested in this ...
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How to reach the maximum bandwidth on many USB drives?
I have many (~60 at now) external USB drives which I need to occasionally, but regularly, connect to one Linux workstation because I need to run a sanity check program on data saved on them.
I don't ...
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My USB flash drive is corrupt and I can't format or mount it [duplicate]
The USB flash drive is a DataTraveler 104 32GB. I used to use it, but it has stopped working.
If you plug it in on Windows, it freezes the disk management and the file explorer.
On Debian, disks show ...
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How to prevent specific USB device (vendorId:ProductId) from having driver loaded
I am trying to setup Debian Linux host with KVM (libvirt) virtual machines. Host has some USB devices attached to it and I would like to pass-through one of them to the guest virtual machine. To do so ...
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Why is Macbook Pro 2019 with Intel & T2 NOT recognizing live USB for dual booting Linux using T2Linux ISO image?
Macbook Pro 2019 is NOT recognizing live USB for dual booting linux using https://t2linux.org ISO image
If I use 'Option' key, it will just show the single option, Macintosh HD and boot into MacOS
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How can I sniff a USB connection between a PC and a Thermal printer?
I need to develop a hardware and software solution to intercept the communications between a PC - Thermal receipt printer. The protocol between these two is USB, but i don't have any idea of where to ...
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USB with Kali Linux 2024.1 (not live) installed not visible in boot menu
Specifications:
Laptop: Lenovo Legion Pro 5i (Gen 8)
CPU: i9 (13th Gen)
GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060
USB B is a SanDisk Ultra Luxe (128GB)
For context:
Secure boot is off.
USB ports are working ...
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After installing Debian on USB stick, stick does not boot on MacBook
My goal is to install Debian to be bootable from a usb stick on a MacBook with two usb ports. To do so I booted from Debian Live flash on the first usb port. Next I used to Debian installer to ...
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USB Keyboard Interrupt Linux Kernel Module [duplicate]
I am trying to identify the interrupt used for the USB keyboard in Linux Debian. After pulling out my USB keyboad then plugging it back in dmesg shows me this:
[11614.703111] usb 3-5: new low-speed ...
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How to boot an HP XW8000 from a USB flash drive?
I have an old XW8000 machine that I’ve been trying and failing boot from USB flash drive for the last week.
I’ve tried burning Ubuntu 6.0, 8.0, 14.0, 22.04 on USB media using PowerIso and BalenaEtcher ...
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Why is USB stick not booting to update BIOS? Is this possible?
I want to update the BIOS for a system. I downloaded the latest ISO of the BIOS directly from the system's manufacturer.
I used Linux Mint's USB Image Writer to make a bootable USB stick of the ISO. ...
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Laptop keyboard not working when trying to install various flavours of Ubuntu from live USB
Today I have acquired a new laptop, Maibenben X565, with pre-installed Kubuntu 22.10. Kubuntu 22.10 is no longer supported, so I wasn't able to update and install packages I need, and was forced to ...
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Why is an incorrect size reported on multi-partition USB flash drive?
I'm creating a custom Linux installer which uses two partitions on a 4GB USB flash drive: an EFI partition for booting and a data partition for installer files.
The size reported by df is unexpected.
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Udev rule doesn't allow Ubuntu to wake on USB Resume sequencing, but NixOS does
I've got a Lenovo ThinkPad T480 running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon running NixOS, and a USB Device with vendor ID 0x36dc. The USB Device is capable of remote wakeup USB Resume ...
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Problems with usb3 attached drive ERROR: Transfer event for disabled endpoint or incorrect stream ring
I have a HP Microserver gen8 that I'm using for testing and some minor backup.
This machine has a debian 9 installation, I'm planning to upgrade it to debian 12 when I will have some time, the machine ...
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How to sync filesystem and wait until it's done
On my embedded device, I want to let user export logs on plugged USB disk. USB disk is normally used only to read, so I don't care much about safe unmounting. But when logs are stored to it, I need to ...
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How to install full linux to a usb drive like unetbootin
I have recently looked into linux as my mac is currently at 10.12 and I need to run newer apps but currently cannot get a new computer. I have decided to move to linux but I don't want to touch the ...
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Is it possible to download a Linux bootable operating system direct to a wiped HDD?
I am in the hospital and have no money so don't need advise me to get a USB drive please.
I purchased a laptop which ended up having BitLocker enabled when I disabled secure boot.
I have a 3.5GB USB ...
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Why is my LVM volume showing as being mounted multiple times?
Just noticed a weird thing in the output of lsblk:
It shows that it’s mounted multiple times for each physical volume. It doesn’t seem to be causing any issues. But I’m very curious why it’s doing ...
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ttyUSB serial device not being created in Ubuntu18.04
I'm trying to get a USB serial device ( a GlobalSat BU-353N5 USB GPS ) up and working on an Ubuntu 18.04 PC running as a VMWare VM. I have USB pass thru enabled and I can see the device appear and ...
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How to recieve print data on Linux from a CN36 cable?
I have a HP 200LX palmtop computer with some proprietary software on it. The palmtop communicates with a printer with a cable from an proprietary 8-pin HP connector (on the palmtop) to a standard CN36 ...
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After fresh Debian install bootable USB drives freeze BIOS
Laptop: Acer aspire A515-56
Debian Release: 12.4.0
Mint release: 21.2
System BIOS version: v1.12
Flashing method: Balena etcher on kali workstation
PS. It says BIOS version, but UEFI boot is the only ...
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Bootloop with additional drive attached
i'm working on a raspberry pi4b with debian 12 lite on, I'm booting from an usb ssd (sda) with no issue. As soon as I connect and mount another external usb drive (sdb) I'm getting into this boot loop ...
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Recover a USB mount from disconnect - reconnect
I'm using an m2 SSD in a USB C enclosure as a root partition on Linux.
Despite trying different enclosure brand, there are always some rare disconnection (when moving the cable for example).
A quick ...
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Boot 3.0 USB on Surface Go 3 works with adapter but not with USB hub
I'm trying to boot a permanently installed Linux from a portable SSD on my Surface Go 3.
The SSD has GRUB installed on it and basically works just line any other portable Linux. I have confirmed that ...
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How to get live USB to print verbose output during Linux boot
In the case of an installed Linux, such as Debian/Ubuntu or derivatives, it is possible to edit the Grub config file like this:
sudo vi /etc/default/grub
and comment out this line:
#...
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Using Linux as a replacement for a female-female USB adapter? [closed]
I'm trying to access a phone I own with a broken touch screen.
Long story short, I want to use OTG to connect a USB mouse to the phone, but I don't own an OTG/USB-USB connector. All I have is a Linux ...
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USB drive detected as a char device (not block device) on Linux?
I have a Kingston's DataTraveler SE9 (8G, SerialNumber: 0014785448B4BCA13728002A), and I myself am running Pop!_OS, and I can't seem to figure out why it's not being detected. Not in a Windows system ...
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Where are input events from non-mouse/keyboard USB peripherals (e.g. the buttons on a scanner) sent in Linux?
When I plug in a device like a mouse or a keyboard it shows up as an entry in /dev/input/by-id and I can read bytes from that entry to see what input events have occurred, such as keystrokes and ...
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Why doesn't Kryptex inside Wine recognize CPUs and GPUs?
When I try to run Kryptex inside Wine on Lubuntu, which is installed on a USB drive (not in live mode), either the program freezes during benchmarking or it finishes without finding any hardware on ...
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Logitech G502 lightspeed adapter disconnects after disk migration on Debian 12
Recently I treated myself to a 1TB NVMe SSD to replace my very old Samsung 750 500Gb SSD.
I cloned my debian 12 install to the new disk using clonezilla's disk-to-disk, expand partition setting. apart ...
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I try to install batocera on the internal hard drive from boot usb but it doesn't work
I have a mini PC with an Intel Atom processor (I'm not at home now, when I return I will edit the question adding the model), 2 Gb of RAM and a 30 Gb internal SSD.
I mounted the batocera image for ...
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Chrome and Firefox lose ability to use keyboard on Fedora 38 while other applications can use keyboard
We have a number of Fedora 38 systems where sporadically Chrome and Firefox no longer receive keyboard input. Other applications, like terminal, do not experience this issue. Chrome is not locked as ...
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Cannot format USB flash drive to FAT32 while writing Linux Mint Cinnamon Edge using Rufus
I wanted to install Linux MINT on my computer. I downloaded Mint and Mint Edge .ISO files. When I opened Rufus to write them to a USB flash drive, it couldn't format the disk to FAT32 when I selected ...
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OrangePi Zero 3 apparently can't recognize USB Audio Device in Debian 12
I recently purchased a OrangePi Zero 3 4Gb with expansion board to connect to my Xiegu X6100 ricetrans to run FT8 connections via WSJT-X application.
Unfortunately the connection OrangePi Zero 3 with ...
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How to boot my laptop from USB pendrive with Fedora
I have a laptop with Windows 11 installed. I wanted to change the OS to Linux, specifically Fedora. I installed Fedora Media Writer and created a bootable pendrive (Fedora Workstation 38). I changed ...
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Bootable Windows USB UEFI and GPT table
I have an Windows 10 iso
I have an SD card with an SD card reader (basically a slow pen drive)
I have created an GPT partition table on the pen drive* with one partition of full space.I have copied ...
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Does command "fatattr" preserve timestamp?
Nowadays USB sticks and other storage devices connecded by USB are widly used. And because of compatibility reasons it is best to leave the original formatting FAT32.
Yet often an USB stick contains
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Kali linux persistance usb is not saving anything
I created a kali linux usb by flash the OS(downloaded from the website and I has chosen the usb one) to the usb with etcher, then I followed the process on kali website. Nothing gives error in the ...
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Giving rw permissions for everyone on USB device
I just bought a Zigbee USB device, and I plugged it into my server, but I can't start the relevant containers, because they have no permission to read/write on the device. I figured that adding the ...
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USB Serial support registered for ch341-uart in dmesg but /dev/ttyUSB0 does'nt show up in Debian12 on OrangePI Zero 3
I need to connect a Tlora32 device (ESP32 based) on USB serial port but no /dev/ttyUSB0 shows up despite the usb serial driver is loaded as seen in dmesg:
[ 7.042635] usbcore: registered new ...
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Unmanage all USB ethernet adapters, but keep names unique
One can disable a particular interface by listing it in one of the configs:
[keyfile]
unmanaged-devices=interface-name:enx6c4bca1ac914
But I want ALL USB ethernet adapters to be unmanaged and do not ...
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Copying large video files to external hard drive (connected via a SATA III to USB 3.0 hub) universally causes file corruption
The files are perfectly fine on my server's local SSD, but when I try to copy them to the ext4 logical volume I have set up on top of a volume group that contains only this HDD, where the size of the ...
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Arch Linux USB installation media reboots to Windows after few minutes
I made an Arch Linux bootable USB drive using Ventoy. After booting into the USB drive, everything was fine until it gets stuck on "Wait until kernel time synchronized" session. Then it ...
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