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Best way to install Linux?

Posted on November 7, 2012 | 3 Comments

I want to install Kubuntu 8.10. I have a live CD but i want to install it to my hard drive. I wanted to get an external hard drive to back up all my data on my current drive and install it to my current hard drive that I have now and make my computer a dual-boot machine.(XP and Linux) But my friend said I should buy another internal hard drive and install Linux on that. What would be the better way?

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Best way to install Linux?

Posted on November 7, 2012 | Leave a comment

I want to install Kubuntu 8.10. I have a live CD but i want to install it to my hard drive. I wanted to get an external hard drive to back up all my data on my current drive and install it to my current hard drive that I have now and make my computer a dual-boot machine.(XP and Linux) But my friend said I should buy another internal hard drive and install Linux on that. What would be the better way?

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What is the best way to run linux for academic research while maintaining WinXP on my laptop?

Posted on June 20, 2012 | 3 Comments

I am still new to linux/unix and I have been working with some fairly obscure academic research programs by SSHing to linux (Redhat and Solaris) servers through my laptop. I have had the administrators of the servers erase all my data once, and I want to have more control over my destiny. I have looked at using Live CDs/USBs, CoLinux, virtualizers, Cygwin, and dual-booting — but I don’t know which would be fast enough to run data/calculation intensive academic programs and also not make me destroy/re-install my current WinXP installation to do it.

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Install OS’s (.iso) from USB?

Posted on April 1, 2012 | 3 Comments

Hello I am going to install Debian Linux on my computer but I want to do it from a USB drive rather than a CD-ROM. How can I do it. Drive is 2GB Kingston Data Traveler, and my computer can boot from USB’s. I am running windows XP and I have a live CD of Ubuntu 7.10 with no internet working on it.

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How do I set my partition table with testdisk to salvage data from a linux damaged partition?

Posted on March 7, 2012 | 2 Comments

I have (or better put, used to have) a dual boot setup of my laptop. The hard disk crashed and left me with some data to save, unfortunately the partition is inaccessible with many things I tried, including live cd’s (now I’m under Ubuntu live). I am using testdisk, and this is the table:

D HPFS – NTFS 0 1 1 9728 254 63 156296322
D FAT32 LBA 1803 1 1 4255 254 63 39407382 [NO NAME]
D Linux 4256 0 1 9543 254 63 84951720 [/]
D Linux 4256 1 1 5806 254 63 24916752
D Linux Swap 5807 1 1 5997 254 63 3068352
D Linux 5998 1 1 9728 254 63 59938452 [Linux_home]
D Linux Swap 9544 1 1 9728 254 63 2971962

My data is on the partition starting at 5998. Almost anything I try seems to be illegal. How can I resolve this mess?
Thanks…

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