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How to Create Bootable USB Drives and SD Cards For Every Operating System Creating installation media for your operating system of choice used to be simple. Just download an ISO and burn it to CD or DVD. Now we’re using USB drives, and the process is a little different for each operating system. You can’t just copy files form an ISO disc image directly onto your USB drive. The USB drive’s data partition needs to be made bootable, for one thing. This process will usually wipe your USB drive or SD card. This article was written a while ago, but we’re updating and republishing it today for Windows 10. First, Make Sure You’re Using a USB 3.0 Drive For only $15, it’s a great upgrade USB 2.0 has been around forever, and everything supports it, but it’s notoriously slow. You’ll be much better off   making the upgrade to USB 3.0  since the prices have dropped dramatically, and the speed increases are enormous… you can get 10x the speed. And speed really matters w...

Clone a Hard Drive Using an Ubuntu Live CD Whether you’re setting up multiple computers or doing a full backup, cloning hard drives is a common maintenance task. Don’t bother burning a new boot CD or paying for new software – you can do it easily with your Ubuntu Live CD. Not only can you do this with your Ubuntu Live CD, you can do it right out of the box – no additional software needed! The program we’ll use is called   dd , and it’s included with pretty much all Linux distributions.   dd   is a utility used to do low-level copying – rather than working with files, it works directly on the raw data on a storage device. Note:   dd   gets a bad rap, because like many other Linux utilities, if misused it can be very destructive. If you’re not sure what you’re doing, you can easily wipe out an entire hard drive, in an unrecoverable way. Of course, the flip side of that is that   dd   is extremely powerful, and can do very complex tasks with...

Linux Basics - Set A Static IP On Ubuntu On this page Step 1: Configure the network interface Step 2: Configure the DNS servers Step 3: Restart networking This tutorial explains how to set a static IP on an Ubuntu system from the command line. Step 1: Configure the network interface In this step you will manually configure your network interface by editing the following files using your preferred text editor(nano gedit vi). For the purpose of this example I am using the "nano" editor. You can edit the appropriate file by entering the following command into the terminal: You can copy and paste directly from this line. sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces Enter your root password, once your prefered editor opens the file you can see... auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dynamic If you have more than one network card, please be sure to make changes to the correct network interface. Statically configured network cards will have a...

How to Fix an Ubuntu System When It Won’t Boot Ubuntu doesn’t offer the   Safe Mode   and   Automatic Repair   tools you’ll find in Windows, but it does offer a recovery menu and a reinstall option that keeps your files and programs. If you can’t boot anything — not even a USB drive or CD — you may need to   configure the boot order in your BIOS . If this doesn’t help, there may be a hardware problem with your computer. Check if You Can Access the GRUB Boot Loader RELATED ARTICLE GRUB2 101: How to Access and Use Your Linux Distribution’s Boot Loader Ubuntu and practically every other Linux distribution use the GRUB2 boot loader. Unless you have multiple operating systems installed, this...   [Read Article] The first thing to check is whether you can access the GRUB2 boot loader . Boot your computer while holding the Shift key. If you see a menu with a list of operating systems appear, you’ve accessed the GRUB boot loader. If you don’...