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Use The dd Command to Make a Flash Drive Bootable

Posted 03-14-2017 at 05:54 PM by Ztcoracat
Sometimes Unetbootin doesn't work and leaves things on the drive behind.

Using the dd command is very useful and only takes a few minutes.

First execute; as root, fdisk -l to find out what drive the flash drive is.
I'll use /dev/sdg as an example.

To reformat run as root:
Code:
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdg -I
Unmount the drive:
Code:
umount /dev/sdg
Than to write the .iso to the flash drive run:
Code:
dd bs=4M
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How To Get The Driver For The RTL8192ce PCI Card to Play Nice With Debian Testing

Posted 03-14-2017 at 03:44 PM by Ztcoracat
I've had an intermittent connection going on with Sparky Linux which is based on Debian Testing.

If you have the:
Code:
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
as your nic than it (the driver) can be made more reliable by disabling power management via module option ips and fwlps.

Create a new file with nano or your fav text editor.
/etc/modprobe.d/rtl8192ce.conf
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