While most Linux distributions have an assortment of at least some useful diagnostic and recovery tools (and often, looking at a drive through another operating system can be immensely useful in ...

If you mean using a boot CD to boot your hard drive install normally (as opposed to being a rescue disk), then the simplest solution would be to make a boot floppy, and when you're satisfied it's ...

Can someone explain to me how to make a corel linux boot disk, so instead of making a duel boot system, I can just use the boot disk when I want to use Linux. On the corel website, it says to format a ...

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OK, you've settled on which version of Linux you want to load on your old PC. Here's how to make it happen. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. You've got one of these lying around. Just make it has a 4GB ...

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 ...

Last week I described a free CD called dyne:bolic that promised video and audio production and streaming capability on a bootable GNU/Linux CD. See the dynebolic web site for more information. I was ...

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 ...