Toggen Technology Blog

This is a collection of posts starting in 2006. Focusing mainly on Linux, Open Source Software and technical tips collected over several decades in IT

From Clonezilla Image to VMWare Workstation – A Journey

So when I have to work on some ancient out of Microsoft Support system. I take an disk image using CloneZilla to make sure I can access the data if things go skew whiff or there is a need to refer back to it later It's nice to be able to boot the OS from the...

How to find the Windows Subsystem for Linux Home Directory for the Current User

I'm currently use a Windows 10 Pro VMWare Virtual Machine on my Fedora 32 installed workstation but getting it's getting recursive as I've installed Ubuntu in the VM. This is how to locate the home directory of the linux user cd %LOCALAPPDATA% ::...

Removing C:\Windows.old

Windows 10 ProVersion 2004 (OS Build 19041.388) In an elevated command prompt Trying to delete C:\Windows.old getting access denied Also got "The data area passed to a system call is too small." while running cacls Commands to run to delete C:\Windows.old takeown /f...

Docker on Fedora 32

Commands to run to get moby-engine running on Fedora 32 # as root or sudo'd dnf install grubby grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="systemd.unified_cgroup_hierachy=0" # check the output of the above grubby --info=ALL sudo mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd sudo mount -t...

PDF Poster

Start with a wide long image. This is just a screen shot of my desktop. widescreen.png Convert it to postscript using convert from ImageMagick # install ImageMagick sudo dnf install ImageMagick convert widescreen.png widescreen.ps Use poster to chop and format the...

July 2020 VMWare Player and Workstation won’t compile their modules on kernel 5.7.6-201.fc32.x86_64 Fedora 32

So just had to downgrade my running Kernel to use an earlier one using: grubby --set-default /boot/vmlinuz-5.6.19-300.fc32.x86_64 I couldn't get the the vmware modules to compile on 5.7.6-201.fc32.x86_64. These things change rapidly and they will probably make an...

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James is an IT Professional based in Melbourne, Australia. He blogs about Information Technology, Open Source software, home renovations, good reads and travel.