TIPS: Guide to Dual Booting

Guide to Dual Booting (PDF) tries to cover the basics: from a detailed Windows, Ubuntu or Fedora installation guide to various issues users may encounter like what happens if you install Windows after Ubuntu and how to get Ubuntu back by restoring GRUB or adding Linux to the Windows bootloader (using an utility that lets you tweak the Windows bootloader, called EasyBCD), which may seem easier for users coming from Windows.

And to make it complete, the guide also covers removing either Windows or Linux from the dual boot setup.

Download Guide to Dual Booting

Thanks to Satyajit for the guide and tip!

TIPS: Add PPA Work-around For Linux Mint 12 RC

There is a bug in Linux Mint 12 RC related to adding PPAs: when you add a PPA using "add-apt-repository", the .list file (under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/) uses "lisa" as the code name instead of "oneiric". Since the PPAs are not using the Ubuntu code name, they won't work and when running "sudo apt-get update", you'll get a "Failed to fetch [...] 404 Not Found" error.

A work-around is to edit the .list files under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and replace "lisa" with "oneiric", but to make it easier, I've updated Y PPA Manager with a work-around for this bug, so adding a PPA through Y PPA Manager should work as usual, without having to tweak anything else.

To install the latest Y PPA Manager in Linux Mint 12 RC, open terminal use the commands:

HOWTO: Protecting Data with Encrypted Linux Partitions

In these days data is more important especially if its a laptop. Where in we store variety of data either it be personal or office. so I have created this article where we can safely store the data securely. I will be explaining the procedure for it.

Once you have a nice new empty partition, you'll encrypt it with the cryptsetup command. Be very sure you are encrypting the correct partition:

# cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase -c aes-cbc-plain luksFormat /dev/sda2