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Read more →Note that all the information displayed here is readily available from different sources elsewhere on the Internet. Anything you do with it is at your own risk. No one else is responsible for the results of your own actions. When you want to play foreign DVDs on your own DVD player, you generally need...
Read more →If you need to recover files and/or partitions on Linux, TestDisk and PhotoRec may be useful. Both are very powerful and free tools that run on Linux and may also work if you need to recover data from USB Hard Drives, USB Memory Drives, Memory Cards, CD-ROMS, iPod, etc. Despite its name “PhotoRec”, this...
Read more →Unlike on the Ubuntu Desktop edition, USB devices are not automatically mounted on Ubuntu Server. You will have to do it manually. Luckily it’s quite simple. First, you need to find out which device needs to be mounted: sudo fdisk -l Most likely, your USB Hard Drive will be /dev/sdb1. Now we create a...
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Read more →In order to mount an ISO image in Linux, so that you can access its contents, use the following command. You may need to change the arguments where needed. sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 mydvd.iso /cdrom
Read more →In order to copy a CD or DVD to an ISO image in Linux, use one of the following commands below: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image.iso or: cat /dev/cdrom >image.iso Note that you should not use the mounted directory to the cdrom device, but rather the device directory itself.
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