If you just installed a new hard drive in your computer and you are running the Ubuntu operating system, you must partition and format the new drive before you can use it. To use the drive with Ubuntu ...

When it comes time to replace your computer's hard drive, the prospect of reinstalling all your operating system and programs is exhausting. However, by copying your Ubuntu partition over to your new ...

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 ...

So, now it looks like I will have to reinstall my desktop soon. Right now, my Ubuntu desktop works and doesn't have problems, but it's a dual-boot Windows (for my iPhone and games)/Ubuntu (for ...

Ubuntu Linux 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex, is the most popular Linux distribution available for installing on your PC, thanks to its steadily improving hardware compatibility and installation software, ...

The title says it all. I want to do things the hard way. Here's the deal. I have a Toshiba M200. AFAIK, it doesn't seem to boot from USB* (I couldn't boot the Win7 installer, for example). It does ...

If you own a Dell Inspiron Mini with Ubuntu and paid extra to upgrade your hard drive from the stock 4 GB to an 8 GB or 16 GB SSD drive, you better get sudo fdisk-ing and check your partition sizes. A ...