• Partition software

    From claw@700:100/84 to All on Sat Jun 4 23:46:51 2022
    The best one I have found is gparted however there are some awesome tools in the System Rescue CD. Its free and open source. Plenty of docs on the net about how to use it.

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  • From paulie420@700:100/71 to claw on Sun Jun 5 17:59:55 2022
    The best one I have found is gparted however there are some awesome
    tools in the System Rescue CD. Its free and open source. Plenty of
    docs on the net about how to use it.

    I use tmux rescue, and some others...

    Another thing to check into is creating a Ventoy USB. It allows you to drop MANY .iso's on the USB and boot into a menu that lets you select any ISO thats there...

    So you can load up all your tools, cloners, and even several distros and only need one USB - I keep a 128GB Ventoy in my toolbag and I usually don't need to download anything.

    Check it out;

    https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html



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  • From claw@700:100/84 to paulie420 on Mon Jun 6 07:51:10 2022
    On 05 Jun 2022, paulie420 said the following...
    I use tmux rescue, and some others...

    Another thing to check into is creating a Ventoy USB. It allows you to drop MANY .iso's on the USB and boot into a menu that lets you select
    any ISO thats there...

    So you can load up all your tools, cloners, and even several distros and only need one USB - I keep a 128GB Ventoy in my toolbag and I usually don't need to download anything.

    Check it out;

    https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html


    pAULIE42o

    I have been meaning to check this out. I have seen several videos online about it. I just haven't taken the time to get it going. Maybe its about time.

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  • From paulie420@700:100/71 to claw on Mon Jun 6 18:07:20 2022
    https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

    I have been meaning to check this out. I have seen several videos
    online about it. I just haven't taken the time to get it going. Maybe its about time.

    Yea, its super easy to USE - and almost as easy to setup... it certainly comes in handy and you have so much at your fingertips; you just pop the thing in, boot and get a menu of ALL your .iso's to boot into from there.



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  • From Greenlfc@700:100/71 to claw on Wed Jun 8 06:20:24 2022
    On 06 Jun 2022, claw said the following...

    I have been meaning to check this out. I have seen several videos
    online about it. I just haven't taken the time to get it going. Maybe its about time.

    I second the motion to use Ventoy. This is the product I kept wishing someone would make back when I was a tech. I now keep two disks with it - a small 32GB one with my main installers and live CDs, and a 256GB one with just about everything I would ever use and enough room to drop things on in a one-off fashion.

    While I've found that it *usually* works, occasionally I run into a system that doesn't like booting off the disk. I'm not sure the reason behind that, but it's still worth having in the toolbox.

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  • From claw@700:100/84 to Greenlfc on Wed Jun 8 17:32:17 2022
    On 08 Jun 2022, Greenlfc said the following...
    On 06 Jun 2022, claw said the following...

    I have been meaning to check this out. I have seen several videos online about it. I just haven't taken the time to get it going. May its about time.

    I second the motion to use Ventoy. This is the product I kept wishing someone would make back when I was a tech. I now keep two disks with it
    - a small 32GB one with my main installers and live CDs, and a 256GB one with just about everything I would ever use and enough room to drop
    things on in a one-off fashion.

    While I've found that it *usually* works, occasionally I run into a
    system that doesn't like booting off the disk. I'm not sure the reason behind that, but it's still worth having in the toolbox.

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    I will be making one of these for travel. I use my Fog Server for installing most other common OSes

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  • From paulie420@700:100/71 to Greenlfc on Wed Jun 8 18:05:11 2022
    [Ventoy]
    While I've found that it *usually* works, occasionally I run into a
    system that doesn't like booting off the disk. I'm not sure the reason behind that, but it's still worth having in the toolbox.

    I haven't ever come across a machine that doesn't boot my Ventoy - but I guess mostly all of my systems are Linux based and happy to accept most anything... I never pop it into a Windows box - wonder if my Apple hardware will play ball, tho. :P



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  • From paulie420@700:100/71 to claw on Wed Jun 8 18:05:29 2022
    I will be making one of these for travel. I use my Fog Server for installing most other common OSes

    Ok, I'll bite - whats a Fog Server?



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  • From Greenlfc@700:100/71 to paulie420 on Thu Jun 9 05:15:27 2022
    On 08 Jun 2022, paulie420 said the following...

    I haven't ever come across a machine that doesn't boot my Ventoy - but I guess mostly all of my systems are Linux based and happy to accept most anything... I never pop it into a Windows box - wonder if my Apple hardware will play ball, tho. :P


    I don't recall the specific configurations, but it was a matter of it getting hung at the splash screen and never letting me pick an ISO, or after I picked an ISO it failed. Those are rare, though.

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  • From Greenlfc@700:100/71 to claw on Thu Jun 9 05:18:28 2022
    On 08 Jun 2022, claw said the following...

    I will be making one of these for travel. I use my Fog Server for installing most other common OSes

    I had an MDT server set up for my Windows deployments at home, but I found myself doing them infrequently enough that I kinda gave up on maintaining it. I haven't had a need to dig deep on Linux deployment, although I'd love to spend some time with MaaS and Ansible.

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  • From claw@700:100/84 to paulie420 on Thu Jun 9 14:02:58 2022
    On 08 Jun 2022, paulie420 said the following...
    Ok, I'll bite - whats a Fog Server?

    pAULIE42o

    Its super fun. https://fogproject.org/
    What it does is allow PXE booting to install and OS, back one up and restore them. So basically you can have several OSes ready to install right off the network. You boot off the network select the OS or image you want loaded and it just puts it in. I have a Windows 10 imaged I debloated and installed all the core programs I always install. Then imaged it. Whenever someone needs to reinstall its about 10 - 15 minutes and then we install drivers and done. Total install less than an hour.

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  • From claw@700:100/84 to Greenlfc on Thu Jun 9 18:09:22 2022
    On 09 Jun 2022, Greenlfc said the following...
    I don't recall the specific configurations, but it was a matter of it getting hung at the splash screen and never letting me pick an ISO, or after I picked an ISO it failed. Those are rare, though.

    GreenLFC º e> greenleaderfanclub@protonmail.com

    did you try disabling secure boot?

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  • From claw@700:100/84 to Greenlfc on Thu Jun 9 18:11:22 2022
    On 09 Jun 2022, Greenlfc said the following...
    I had an MDT server set up for my Windows deployments at home, but I
    found myself doing them infrequently enough that I kinda gave up on maintaining it. I haven't had a need to dig deep on Linux deployment, although I'd love to spend some time with MaaS and Ansible.

    GreenLFC º e> greenleaderfanclub@protonmail.com

    I'm sort of the Tech fix it guy for my friends and family. I don't use it like a business would but when I need it Man I love it! There really isn't much to maintain.

    Also comes in handy for makeing VM's If I don't feel like getting the newest ISO just PXE boot and let it update later.

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  • From Greenlfc@700:100/71 to claw on Fri Jun 10 06:34:12 2022
    On 09 Jun 2022, claw said the following...

    did you try disabling secure boot?

    Probably, but I don't recall anymore. I screw around with enough machines that I don't keep track :).

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  • From paulie420@700:100/71 to claw on Sat Jun 11 12:33:19 2022
    Its super fun. https://fogproject.org/
    What it does is allow PXE booting to install and OS, back one up and restore them.

    Neat - I use ProxMox and 'templates' to accomplish similar, but appreciate the link... another 'thing' to poke around in. w00t w00t.



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  • From Greenlfc@700:100/71 to paulie420 on Mon Jun 13 06:12:48 2022
    On 11 Jun 2022, paulie420 said the following...

    Neat - I use ProxMox and 'templates' to accomplish similar, but
    appreciate the link... another 'thing' to poke around in. w00t w00t.

    Having a way to image bare metal is super useful when you've got friends who hit you up for support, or if you're constantly screwing up your main OS. Back when I wasn't cool enough to run Linux full time, I used Norton Ghost to rebuild my Windows machine at least monthly :).

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