Disk2vhd

Sometimes you are just forced to use proprietary software.

Disk2vhd – Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs

Disk2vhd includes command-line options that enable you to script the creation of VHDs. Specify the volumes you want included in a snapshot by drive letter (e.g. c:) or use “*” to include all volumes.Usage: disk2vhd Example: disk2vhd * c:\vhd\snapshot.vhd Physical-to-virtual hard drive migration of a Windows installation is a valid function for customers with Software Assurance and full retail copies of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Software Assurance provides users valuable benefits—please contact Microsoft Corporation for further information. Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 installed by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) using OEM versions of these products may not be transferred to a virtual hard drive in accordance with Microsoft licensing terms

 

dpkg – How to install Scratch 2 on Ubuntu 16.10. or 17.04 (64bit)? – Ask Ubuntu

Today my daughter asked me to install Scratch.

But not the tablet. I already did it. On the computer. I tought it was a breeze.

Actually it was as simple as “sudo apt install scratch“. Too bad I got an oldish 1.4 version and her book refers to version 2.0.

To make a long story short, they relied on the piece of rotting proprietary software known as “Adobe AIR”.

There are several guides on how to install it on Linux too, but the one I found to actually work is in a comment of

dpkg – How to install Scratch 2 on Ubuntu 16.10. or 17.04 (64bit)? – Ask Ubuntu

which works also on Debian.

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