Yearly Archives: 2019


write error: File too large

If it says “write error: File too large” when you redirect output to a file, e.g.: cat a.txt | sort > blah It may have to do with limitation of the file system’s size (FAT vs ntfs, etc).  Try writing to another directory, such as /tmp or whatever.


USB Installer for Windows 7 caveats

Windows 7 is so old that its drivers does not support USB 3.0, among other things. So even if you use rufus and a genuine windows 7 iso to create a bootable usb windows 7 installer, it may not work on newer motherboard/hardware.    During the install you may run into issue of it asking […]