In the following simple solution, I cover how to Find Large files in Linux. This process was tested from a running Ubuntu Linux environment. It’s good to know which files are taking up the most space as disk space fills up. It’s often necessary to locate largest files when you start running out of disk space, and need to perform a cleanup to remove unnecessary files in order to make space for some new files.
How to manually Install Raspbmc to USB
How to Install Raspbmc to USB Manually from Windows: A Windows Raspbmc Installer does exist that enables a user to install and run Raspbmc from a USB drive on their Raspberry Pi. However, if your running a different version of .Net than 3.0 (even a newer version), the RASPBMC installer will crash with an error stating “raspbmc installer has stopped working“.
Have no fear, you can easily duplicate the process of the Raspbmc Installer by following the simple steps outlined below:
FIXED: No Devices Matches MBR Identifier
If you are getting boot errors stating “No Devices Matches MBR Identifier” while trying to boot OpenSUSE from a custom flash drive, it is likely that the Disk Identifier (or Disk ID) found in the MBR file, is incorrect. In the following simple solution, I’ll show you a couple of ways to fix this.
Make a Bootable USB Kaspersky Rescue Disk
Creating a Bootable USB Kaspersky Rescue Disk from Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 ISO is relatively simple, thanks to “Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk Maker“. Kaspersky Rescue Disk is a free stand alone antivirus tool that was designed to scan and disinfect computers that have been infected. The tool is natively available as an ISO, but can be extracted to a USB Flash Drive via rescue2usb.exe.
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Restore GRUB2 after installing Windows
How I Restored GRUB2 after a Windows 7 Install. GRUB2 (Grand Unified Bootloader) is a universal bootloader used by Ubuntu and other Linux Distributions. If you have a Linux Distribution installed on a partition, and attempt to install Windows alongside it, your GRUB bootloader will be overwritten by the Windows bootloader, and your computer will only boot into Windows.