▲ 613 ▼ The fact that you can’t run through Windows setup w/o internet and an online account is absolute bullshit (thelemmy.club) submitted 19 hours ago by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 81 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] forbiddencherry@lemmy.today 6 points 18 hours ago* (1 child) Out of curiosity, what happens if you image the laptop drive and boot it under VirtualBox (keeping the Linux host offline, so the Windows guest can't phone home)? Potentially useful: https://superuser.com/questions/614400/how-can-i-clone-a-hard-drive-directly-to-a-vdi-image permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to dig into this. I have no qualms about pulling my HD from the laptop and cloning it, so I should be able to try a bunch of different methods until it works. For the stuff I need to do on my laptop, RDP is all I need so it can sit on a server in the basement waiting for me to start it up when I need it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to dig into this. I have no qualms about pulling my HD from the laptop and cloning it, so I should be able to try a bunch of different methods until it works. For the stuff I need to do on my laptop, RDP is all I need so it can sit on a server in the basement waiting for me to start it up when I need it. permalink fedilink source parent
