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by LarryDC
October 18th, 2018, 3:36 pm
Forum: Discuss
Topic: Nvidia users: Caution on kernel upgrades
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Nvidia users: Caution on kernel upgrades

One of the great things about Absolute are Paul's frequent kernel upgrades. However be careful if you're lazy like me and just use Control Center - Software - Package Manager [type in your root password] Then in Gslapt: Update - Mark all upgrades - Execute. If you upgrade the kernel and have already...
by LarryDC
October 18th, 2018, 3:13 pm
Forum: Discuss
Topic: Latest iso absolute64-20180913.iso: unetbootin or rufus
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Latest iso absolute64-20180913.iso: unetbootin or rufus

Since I don't have a running Windows partition (for rufus) nor familiarity with unetbootin, I was stuck until I ran "isohybrid" on the subject iso. Then the usual "dd" worked fine: # dd bs=4M if=absolute64-20180913.iso of=/dev/sdb ##[or c .. or d....but NEVER /dev/sda]. # sync ##...