In the almost 20 years since Linux was first released into the world, free for anyone to use and modify however they like, the operating system has been put to a lot of uses. Today, a vast number of ...

I want to install Suse 6.1 on a very old PC I have here, but the machine doesn't support booting from the cd-rom, is there a generic cd-rom access boot disk I can create? I can't find anything on the ...

A colleague at work has 20+ scsi disks from pc's and sun's which need wiping before chucking, sizes vary from 11 MB (!) to I guess 2 GB. He needs a way to easily wipe them, I suggested a linux boot ...

For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made ...

Is it possible to write to an NTFS partition after booting a PC with a Linux boot disk? I have a PC with a corrupt ntldr file on the C: drive that won't boot into Windows. I started the machine with ...

Truths about dual booting I learned the hard way.

I must confess, that I try not to run Windows any more than absolutely necessary. But for many reasons, it is occasionally necessary. In particular, I have had several laptops that are finicky with ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...