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Questions surrounding the creation and use of disk images (created via dd, ddrescue, or other means)

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dmg2img Image is corrupt

Okay, so I have a .dmg file I want to convert to .img It's stored in my home directory so I type: dmg2img image.dmg image.img (The image is actually called image) Then I get: caitlan@caitlan-iMac:~$ dmg2img image.dmg image.img dmg2img v1.6.2 is…
Caitlann Lloyd
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What is "image is oversized ..." bug?

I have been seen this message since a long time: Warning: This image is oversized (which is a bug) and will not fit onto a standard 703MiB CD. However, you may still test it using a DVD, a USB drive, or a virtual machine. Is this really a bug or…
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How to mount disks automatically without fstab?

When I update my system, I always set up the disks to be mounted automatically. The standard behaviour of Ubuntu is unsuitable for my purposes since there are programs accessing disks before I have opened it. I could edit /etc/fstab. As a matter of…
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Automated/Scheduled & Incremental Acronis TrueImage-like Functionality for Ubuntu

Are there any free or commercial tools to easily create Automated/Scheduled Incremental disk images? (i.e. Acronis TrueImage-like functionality). The use case is to create a job that runs every night and backs up the entire disk to another disk…
John Winds
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How to set up a disk-image

I created an Android Open Source project that requires to be installed on an Ubuntu machine a lot of tools, packages. In order to facilitate contributions, I want to create a disk-image with all pre-installed tools and configurations. Is there a…
epsilones
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How to take an image of the entire hard disk?

I am using Ubuntu 12.4 I like to take an image of entire hard disk is there any software for this operating system or we can take image through Norton ghost?
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Creating a core image

If I create an image (ie., install and do what I need to do for the image), is there a process or an application I can use to create a "spin" to roll out to a couple of computers, and is there a central management option for doing this?
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Same Ubuntu installation with additional software on multiple machines?

I have 20 identical small form factor pc that are going to be used as digital signage machines. we are using ubuntu on them. So my question is, is there some way that i can install on one machine everything that is needed (ubuntu, digital signage…
Akiria
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Is posting a system image legal?

I will be using ubuntu for a research experiment at a university. I will be needing to put all meterials on a open science framework website, and am wondering if its legal to post a system image that was used to run it?
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Disk Image (img) cannot mount

I have made a disk image file of /dev/sda1 partition which has windows xp recovery environment. The file is 20.1 GB stored on a ext4 partition, when I am going to open it with the tool of disks app to mount disk images, it says the following:Error…
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Where to find the script to build images like here: https://partner-images.canonical.com/oci/?

Other answers point to https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/livecd-rootfs/+git/livecd-rootfs/+ref/ubuntu/master as the basis. I cannot locate the scripts found at the links here: How are the Official Ubuntu Vagrant boxes built and published…
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Copying Image file to microSD card how best to validate

I use DC3DD to copy Raspberry Pi image files to multiple microSD cards using a Lexar card reader. This has been working well for years, but I've recently encountered a batch of faulty microSD cards. When copying to a faulty card, the DC3DD command…
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G4L and the CLEANHP option

Yesterday I used G4L (Ghost For Linux) to image my Ubuntu 18.04.3LTS with no problem, but trying to image my Windows Visa 64 keeps giving me this error: "lzop: short write: File too large" after about 4-5% completion when it stops and gives me the…
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Use dd to back up?

If I use dd command make an img file to back up my disk when I am using Ubuntu Live USB, and than I format my disk. Can I restore my file from that img file? (including the data is not files)
Wayne Guo
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How to quickly browse through floppy image files

I know how to mоunt a floppy image, but I want to quickly browse trough many images in a rapid fashion. In Windows (with a Total Commander plugin) I can browse through archives as if they were directories. And images (of single partitions) are…
Mark Jeronimus
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