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What to do if you see GNU GRUB version and no login screen in Linux

Sometimes an error can happen and you will see following message on startup:
 

GNU GRUP Version 2.02

Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, 
TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists 
possible device or file completions.

So, something went wrong, but its not a problem. Let's repair it:

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Written by Administrator on Thursday April 2, 2020

How to change color in Flameshot

Flameshot is very popular screenshot manager in Linux. Many people make screenshots and want edit (make arrow, frames etc), but don't know, how to change color of rows and frames. Let's make it clear.

So, you are trying to select some area with rectangle, and color is set to ... for example, blue (in my case):

How to change color in Flameshot?

What if I want to make red rectangle? It's not very clear, but in the moment we are selecting an area to capture, you should push SPACE BUTTON. I will show you, how.

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Written by Administrator on Wednesday April 1, 2020

How to burn ISO on USB drive using BalenaEtcher (with screenshots)

There're a lot of reasons, why do you want burn iso on your USB drive. May be you want create bootable USB drive or just backup your data. Etcher is very simple in use and effective way, how to burn ISO image on USB drive in Linux.

In this case I'm using openSUSE Linux distro, but I'm sure, balenaEtcher works the same in other distros as well.

Let's run Etcher:

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Written by Administrator on Wednesday April 1, 2020

How to check your BIOS info in Linux

The simplest and the fastest way to get your BIOS information from command line (terminal) is to run a command:

In openSUSE Linux

$ sudo dmidecode -t bios

Output:

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Written by Administrator on Wednesday April 1, 2020

How to make .iso from folder in openSUSE Linux

Creating .iso file from several files (let's say folder) is very simple in Linux. First you have to install mkisofs utility:

$ sudo zypper install mkisofs

Then you will need put all your files you want to put in .iso file in a separate folder. In my case, I neede just to rebuild existing bootable .iso file. So, my folder with files is '/home/dima/yobanypizdec'.

Combining files into one .iso file

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Written by Administrator on Wednesday April 1, 2020

How to unzip file in openSUSE Linux

If you want to unzip a file in openSUSE Leap 15.1 Linux, you just need an unzip program.

Install unzip

If unzip is not installed in your system, you an easily do it using zypper:

$ sudo zypper install unzip

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Written by Administrator on Wednesday April 1, 2020

How to format USB drive in Linux

If USB drive is already mounted in your system, it will be impossible to format it. So, first of all we have to unmount it.

1. First, define how USB drive is mounted running following command

$ df -h


 

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Written by Administrator on Wednesday April 1, 2020

Which openSUSE version do I have?

The faster way to get information about the openSUSE version you run is to run a command in terminal:

$ cat /usr/lib/os-release

Then you'll get detailed info directly in terminal. Output you'll see will look like this:

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Written by Administrator on Tuesday March 31, 2020