One of the most confusing and intimidating parts of installing Linux for dual-booting with Windows is the disk partitioning required.

Once you pick an ISO from Ventoy’s boot menu, the tool dynamically maps that ISO into memory or presents it to the system as ...

For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made ...

I could use diskutil to shrink the partition and then create a new partition, and copy the iso image (via dd) into that partition, and then boot Linux from the internal HD and do the upgrade.

Please format the USB drive as single FAT partition The problem here is that when formating USB drive using third party utility doesn’t MBR record, which is needed by the Boot Camp Assistant.

If someone wants to run Linux while their current OS is Windows or macOS, the usual approach is dual-booting. That means partitioning the disk, installing Linux on it, shutting down your computer, and ...

Vincent Danen goes over the basics of using the standard dd tool to back up and copy partitions and drives.

quote:That was a good explanation except for one point. It is quite possible to use partitions without the OS formating them. It's called RAW devices, in this configuration the application ...