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Give Open Media Vault a look. I use it in a few different locations.
https://www.openmediavault.org/


FreeNAS is a good choice too, but I prefer to use it only on commercial LANs

My dog uses Windows NT and hates the vacuum cleaner. The wife, however, uses Mint and seems very happy. But... Yesterday I got in trouble because I block all Facebook IPs on one of my firewalls. Today, the Wall Street Journal gave me redemption on the frount page, top story: Apps Send Sensitive User...

I have used devede. It does the job.

Yup, depending on the make, the BIOS can be nettlesom.

Also, be sure Windows itself is not constraining the machine to secure boot.

Warn your friend... administering a spouse's computer can be a treacherous task.

I always use nvidia GPUs. I have never been unhappy.

Hi,

It'll take a while. Don't give up yet.

Or you could dd the media to a file named w10.iso and attach it as a cd storage device.

Hi, Not a question. The expression is just an inequality: GiB is not the same as Gb. There's a calculation we do because different applications use different units for expressing size. It's confusing because the abbreviations for the two units are very similar: GiB for one and GB for the other. You ...

Great!

Looks like there is an 8 G swap

GiB != Gb
230 + 8 = 238GiB = 250Gb

PS: you are using a different filesystem than I.

I have run into that problem. The number given by the install was no longer available. At the time I was able to hunt down an alternate number ((888) 571-2048). Does that no longer work?


I am glad I have these dinosaurs in VMs.

Your new SDD is a 250 G drive. lsblk and gparted show that you have a formatted partition that fills the drive: 238.46 GiB = 256 Gigabytes ~ 250 Gb. My question is, what is in the used space? If all the files originally occupied 20 Gb and now the files occupy 111 Gb... what is the identity of the ad...

PS: It'll show as Graphical Disk Map in the Accessories menu.
When it starts, choose to scan the entire filesystem.

Well, I would say that, rather than losing the space, you are for some reason occupying more space.

Have a look at gdmap (sudo apt install gdmap). Does that reveal any files are present that were not present in the original 20 Gb?

The tech support industry must be having a field day handling Windows 8 and 10 issues. Yup, lot's of overtime. I have been moving our staff to VMs running full screen on Linux whenever possible. They are resistant at first but eventually they get it. Now, when something goes wrong, they can blame t...

It appears to be entirely allocated now.

what is the output of lsblk?

First, unless the new disk's UUID has been changed, remove the original from the system. Assuming your don't have duplicate UUIDs on the running system and assuming you are not currently booted into an OS running on the new disk: from Gparted be sure the partition is unmounted and Menu>Partition>Che...

Out our way, the power goes out when it's cloudy, so most folks have 18 kids. No cell signal, no radio stations, no cable, and no TV here in radio-free Wastewater (even here in the booming downtown area). Verizon doesn't provide DSL, so we're all on dialup or gettin' FAPed by some slippery satelite ...

Hi, This is pretty straight ahead. First, determine the subnet of your FIOS router (typicaly 192.168.1.0/24, which means all of the addresses begin with 192.168.1). Then, take a second router and connect one of its LAN ports to an ethernet port on your computer and log into this second router's admi...

The hardest part of managing a hive of Windows PCs is managing the users. Here is a typical morning: I just clicked OK and now I can't see my files. I accidently drag-dropped my presentations folder somewhere and now I can't find it. The computer says Windows needs to reboot to complete updates... w...