In a March 31 column, I detailed my experiences installing the most recent version of RedHat Linux 5.2. It wasn’t pretty: I couldn’t get my dual-boot system up and running until I opened up my ...

Create 2 partitions, 1 as type 82 (linux swap) at about 16-32 megs big, and the other should be set up as you like as your space. I just used the remainder of the disk and it defaulted to a linux ...

Installing Linux on an iMac G5. Mac hardware supports most versions of the Linux operating system. Thus, you can install Linux on your iMac G5 without erasing Mac OS X from the machine. In fact ...

If you are unable to boot into Windows after installing Linux Mint or any other distro on your computer, try updating GRUB, using Boot Repair, and adjusting UEFI settings.

I have always let the installer automatically partition my linux install (Redhat/Fedora), and then I just modifiy it since it likes to make my swap file twice as big as my actual memory.

Hi, I got the above machine from a friend recently. I installed NT4 on it and found it useless. I have tried installing Centos and when I try to do an automatic disk partition I get all sorts of ...

Do you want to run a full Linux desktop installation on your Chromebook without giving up ChromeOS? This alteration will give you access to both complete operating systems running simultaneously so ...

My 386 came with 120 meg disk, That might be large enough to squeeze a basic Linux system on, but I also wanted a little room for a MS DOS partition so I upgraded to a 540 meg hard drive.

Until installing any version of Linux gets much easier, its chance of attracting non-programmers is not very good. Originally Published: March 31, 1999 at 1:00 AM CST ...