In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Despite having turned to The Google, I'm having trouble getting this process entirely down. My issue is the following: I have a MBP, purchased August 2010 (eg the last model prior to the Thunderbolt ...

Automatic partitioning is safe and fast for standard installs—choose it if unsure. Manual partitioning is needed if you dual-boot, use LVM, or want separate filesystems for different partitions. Plan ...

I've gotten several comments and questions pertaining to my GRUB posting last week. The most common question was about graphical boot configuration but there were also one or two others, so I'm going ...

Windows 10 isn’t the only (kind of) free operating system you can install on your computer. Linux can run from just a USB drive without modifying your existing system, but you’ll want to install it on ...

I'm planning on doing a full re-format to clean my hardrive of all the gunk it's gathered over the past few years.<P> I wonder though if my MBR (I think that's it anyway) will get reformated with ...

When using Boot Camp Assistant on your macOS, if you receive an error saying — Please format the USB drive as single FAT partition, then this post will help you ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

The following is a continuation of a series of columns on Linux disasters and how to recover from them, inspired in part by a Halloween Linux Journal Live episode ...