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 ...

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Partitioning your hard drive is part of the process and could affect your current data. Make sure to back up your system completely before you begin. Depending on the arrangement, you may need to ...

Firmware, encryption, and filesystem traps that break dual boot.

Right now I'm dual booting between XP and Linux by using LILO on a floppy, but I don't really trust floppies and would like to use XPs boot loader. There was a how-to on this at Anand, which suggested ...

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 ...

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