Using and configuring Linux for general use. How to information and tutorials for Linux beginners.
How to Install Grub2 on USB from Windows. The following covers the process of installing Grub2 on a USB Flash Drive from within Windows. We will be using the grub-install.exe that ships with the grub-for-windows zip file. Upon completion of …
How to add user to sudoers file, list, or group so that you can give a new user root access or privilege. How do I add a user to Sudoers? How do I give a user Sudo permission? How do …
How do I restore a USB flash drive back to its original state? Or how can I reset a USB drive to factory settings? After having tooled around with a USB Linux version using your dd raw image overwritten or …
Use the Casper-RW Creator to make a casper persistent file or writable persistence file for Ubuntu: Written for convenience, this is a simple tool enables you to quickly and easily create a casper persistent image from within Windows. Once finished, …
Mount exFAT USB from Linux. How to access and use an exFAT formatted USB Flash Drive from within Linux. Most newer Linux distributions already ship with exFAT FAT64 filesystem support via the FUSE library and related utilities. However, many older …
How to Install Grub2 on USB from Linux to make a BIOS an UEFI bootable USB that can boot on all Machines. In the following tutorial, I’ll show you one way of easily installing Grub2 Bootloader to a USB Flash …
How do I read Linux files from Windows? Accessing a Linux filesystem from Windows to be able to read and use the information stored on a Linux partition can be accomplished in several ways. As was previously outlined in How …
How can I Wipe a USB drive? How do I permanently delete files forever? Is it possible to erase or clear data from a USB to make deleted information unrecoverable? These are all great questions and yes can be accomplished …
Ubuntu Remote Desktop screen sharing with Windows and Linux. The following tutorial covers the process of remotely accessing and controlling an Ubuntu desktop screen from another Linux or Windows computer. This remote screen sharing process should also work for other …
Installing WINE on Ubuntu. This compatibility layer allows Linux users to run Windows executables .exe files in Linux. The acronym is actually “WINE is Not an Emulator”, because it isn’t. But we will get to that later. This software is …
Create a Casper-RW Larger than 4GB; The following tutorial will show you one way to create a writable Casper partition on your USB flash drive. The benefit of using a casper-rw partition as opposed to a casper-rw block file is …
The following tutorial explains how to create a larger casper-rw loop file (or writable file) for your Ubuntu based flash drive install. For example on: Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Crunchbang or Linux Mint. A larger casper-rw loop file is particularly …
How to Extract or Open a Tar file in Linux. Untar a File in Linux. Many of the most popular downloadable Linux or Unix files found on the internet are compressed using a tar or tar.gz compression format. So, knowing …
Sharing Files Between Ubuntu and Windows. In the following tutorial, I cover how to modify the casper script to allow you to mount your USB Flash Drive with read/write access. By default casper only allows the root user to gain …
How to remove the Ubuntu eject CD prompt. The following tutorial covers the process of removing the “Please remove the disk, close the tray (if any) and press ENTER to continue” prompt entirely from your USB Ubuntu installation. The process …
Ubuntu Installer Not Detecting Hard Drive: I recently experienced a problem installing Ubuntu on a particular computer. Ubuntu’s Ubiquity Installer was not detecting my SATA hard drive, although sudo fdisk -l found the drive just fine, and the drive also …
