Installing Windows from Ubuntu

[Jon LaBadie]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 02:44:05PM -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 2:58 AM Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>>
>:
>> The method I used a couple of years ago and stuck in my Big List Of
>> Handy Hints was this:
>>
>>    sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
>>
>> I just checked and it still seems to work on my two-year old Lenovo
>> laptop, so I guess it's Windows 10. I get this:
>>
>>    kauer at kt1:~$ sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
>>    [sudo] password for kauer:
>>    MSDMU
>>    LENOVOCB-01
>>    ACPI
>>    XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
>>
>I get:
>
>$ sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
>strings: '/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM': No such file
>
>I looked and found this:
>
>$ sudo ls /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/
>APIC  CDIT  data  dynamic  FACS  FPDT  IVRS  PCCT   SSDT2  SSDT4  SSDT6  WPBT
>BGRT  CRAT  DSDT  FACP    FIDT  HPET  MCFG  SSDT1  SSDT3  SSDT5  SSDT7  WSMT
>
>Any suggestions on which one I need?
>

As you know the key will be > 25 chars long, just ask strings to look
only for ascii strings at least 25 chars long.

$ strings -n 25 *


>I'm running a Ryzen 9 5950X CPU on an ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PRO with
>Xubuntu 22.04.2 as the host OS.
>
>I ask because my Win10 VM, which was activated from a corporate
>license more than ten years ago, is now saying the license is about to
>expire. I'd like to renew or replace it, or something - too many years
>of goodies on the VM to just let it expire or have to build/install a
>new one and transfer all that stuff
>
>Thanks.
>
>Mark
>

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Jon H. LaBadie                  ubu at labadie.us