Author: P-O Yliniemi

Creating a bootable USB stick for Windows installation using diskpart

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For the other way around, creating a bootable ISO from a USB:
https://aatayyab.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/convert-bootable-usb-to-an-iso-image/
might also be useful: https://www.dell.com/community/Windows-10/Windows-10-rebootable-iso/td-p/5030000

Cloned from: https://blog.bramp.net/post/2008/06/23/create-bootable-windows-server-2008-usb-stick/

Start diskpart

DISKPART> list disk

     Select the USB device from the list and substitute the disk number below
     when necessary

DISKPART> select disk 1
DISKPART> clean
DISKPART> create partition primary
DISKPART> select partition 1
DISKPART> active
DISKPART> format fs=fat32
DISKPART> assign
DISKPART> exit

xcopy X:\*.* /s/e/f Y:\

     where X:\ is your mounted image or physical DVD and Y:\ is your USB
     device

Diskpart info: http://www.computerhope.com/diskpart.htm
See also: USB install media with WIM file larger than 4GB

Setup Wireless interface with WPA and WPA2 on Ubuntu

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Cloned from: https://linuxconfig.org/setup-wireless-interface-with-wpa-and-wpa2-on-ubuntu

This article describes a simple steps to configure Wireless interface with WPA and WPA2 on Ubuntu and debian Linux. Before we can configure wireless network interface to be used with WPA and WPA2 encryption we need to install a wpasupplicant package:

# apt-get install wpasupplicant wireless-tools

Next change a permissions on /etc/network/interfaces to read/write by a root user only:

# chmod 0600 /etc/network/interfaces

Next use iwcofig command to get a name of your wireless interface:

# iwconfig

Open up /etc/network/interfaces file and add the following code to set wlan0 wireless interface to be used with DHCP:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
       wpa-ssid network-name
       wpa-psk pre-shared-key

In case you want to set your wireless interface with a static IP address add a following code into your /etc/network/interfaces file and alter it according to your needs:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
       address 10.1.1.2
       netmask 255.0.0.0
       network 10.0.0.0
       broadcast 10.255.255.255
       gateway 10.1.1.1
       wpa-ssid network-name
       wpa-psk pre-shared-key

Restart your network and you should be done:

# /etc/init.d/networking restart

Other resources:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/294257/connect-to-wifi-network-through-ubuntu-terminal
http://askubuntu.com/questions/16584/how-to-connect-and-disconnect-to-a-network-manually-in-terminal