Recently I had to install ubuntu on a machine with a bad cdrom drive, which made me look for alternative ways of installing ubuntu. This article describes two ways of how to install Ubuntu by copying the content of the installation CD to an USB drive such as a memory stick (or flash drive) and making the USB stick bootable. This is handy for machines like ultra portable notebooks that do not have a CD drive but can boot from USB media. On a side note, I have to point out that booting from USB stick can be very handy, but there is no guarantee that it will work with your particular combination of computer and USB stick. Even if you are able to boot from your USB stick on one computer, this does not mean that it is going to work with the next one. You can try experimenting with different settings in your PC’s BIOS to make it work.
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I recently decided to upgrade my laptop to windows Vista, which was in a dual boot configuration between windows XP and Ubuntu, after the upgrade I was no longer able to boot into Ubuntu, and that is because the last OS installed usually overwrites the MBR (Master Boot Record), so in this tutorial we will go over the process of bringing your pc back to dual boot after upgrading your XP installation to Vista, on a side note, don’t forget that this method described here puts GRUB back in the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the hard drive instead of the root partition, this is usually fine, unless you have an alternative boot manager like Boot Read the rest of this entry »

After having to reset my Ubuntu box password, I decided to come up with this tutorial on how to reset linux password, in this case we will be taking two different methods…

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In todays hybrid network where Windows and Linux coexist together, I found myself trying to access remote shares from a Linux box and vise versa, having to input credentials to authenticate, well this little tutorial shows a quick and easy way to mount windows network shares in PCLinux with read/write permission, keep in mind that prior to mount the share a user should exist on the remote system in order to authenticate, also notice that the credentials are kept in a clear text file on the Linux box and will be sent during authentication, as it poses a security threat.
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