I am trying to do a fresh install of Fedora 10 from an Installable Live CD. I have partitioned off a section of my current hard drive and I want to dual boot with Windows XP. The installation seems to go fine until I get to the language selection screen in the setup. When this window pops up, the in...

A few days back we looked at how to password protect your GRUB boot entries so that a password is required before anyone can boot the operating system or edit the boot entry. Let’s look at some ways you can use to reset your Linux system’s password. You might know that the root user can ...

BackTrack was the winner of our recent Hive Five for best Live CD, so we decided to take it for a test drive and show off a few of the features for everybody else. BackTrack can be installed to a regular boot cd, a USB drive, installed to the hard drive, or even downloaded as a VMware virtual machin...

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Tutorial: An introduction to Logical Volume Management News: openSUSE releases trademark guidelines, Ubuntu delivers mainline kernel, Debian elects new project leader, ULTILEX live CD Released last week: Zenwalk Linux 6.0 Upcoming releases: openSUSE 11.2 and beyond, ...

I just downloaded an iso of Knoppix 6, which is now said to also good for netbooks and low-end machines. There’s always a chance to try out other Linux distros so I’d probably be busy trying to figure it out for myself tonight, if ever I encounter problems with it. But there’s actu...

After some difficulty (see my other thread on this forum), I have installed Mandriva One 2009 from a live CD. Unfortunately it will not boot. It sits for ages at the splash screen (other distros boot in a fraction of the time), then I get a repeating error message scrolling - ata 3: exception Emask ...

Okay, i´m in my 07:01 train from Hamburg towards Hannover. It´s the fourth day of this CeBIT. At the moment there are as many hours in front of me than behind me. My summary of the last day: The mindshare of OpenSolaris got vastly bigger since my last CeBIT 2 years ago. The opinion of the visitors...

I’m looking at you Ubuntu. For some time now, the standard form for distributing a free OS (ie. Linux, *BSD) has been as a CD-ROM or DVD ISO file. You burn it to a CD, and you can boot and install from that, and also use the disk as a live CD. There are a variety of pages with instructions on ...

Hi, While booted into F10 on a usb key, I couldn't access the hard drive's /home/kurt directory. So, as root in the usb' os I typed [root@mybox~]# chown kurt /media/_/home/kurt I also have installed google desktop and indexed the hard drive with it, but that can't, I think, be the problem, which is:...

Last major collection of links. Alvis has a TAKS test tomorrow so we are going retro and watching some Azumanga Daioh anime DVD’s to melt our brain cells before heading off to an early bedtime. I’ll try to section it up a bit. Lots of neat finds and worthy candidates for your attention.  Do...