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willhaley.com
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| | | | | As my family's computers age into obsolescence I typically back up the disks, use shred to securely erase data from the disks, then donate or re-use the disks/computers. My current technique for backing up the Windows disks is to mount the primary (non-boot) Windows partition, convert it to a squashfs filesystem, then squirrel that backup image away somewhere for safe keeping. I like this technique because squashfs filesystems are highly compressed and read-only by default, which is exactly what I want for a Windows backup that I'll probably never look at again. | |
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willhaley.com
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| | | | | You can use these instructions to create a bootable USB drive with GRUB that can run the Windows 10 installer. I used Arch Linux to prepare my USB device, but any Linux variant like Debian or Ubuntu should work. I am assuming you have an appropriately large USB disk at /dev/sdz that you can completely erase for this process. Unmount the USB drive if mounted. sudo umount /dev/sdz* Wipe all partitions from the USB device. | |
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vcritical.com
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| | | VMware recently announced the new VMware ESXi Management Kit. If you have up to three free ESXi servers deployed and would like to manage them with vCenter Server, this is a great opportunity. Available until April 30 for $995. The kit includes: VMware vCenter Server Foundation vCenter Agents for 3 ESXi hosts (2 CPU sockets | ||
