Every Windows PC usually starts from the built-in hard drive, as the term “Windows PC” implies. This is because the Microsoft operating system is not anchored in or with the hardware, but is installed ...

I'd been burning way too much time trying various ways of making a USB stick bootable, and couldn't get any of them to work, but when I tried UNetbootin it worked great the first time.

In the latest round of upgrades and new installs of openSUSE around here I decided to take a different approach and use the network install and install from a USB stick rather than a DVD. While I was ...

There's a cure to Linux distro hopping, but everyone keeps forgetting about it ...

The CDROM image was a firmware upgrade image from Dell (based on Linux). Mounting the image with iDRAC, it worked nicely. As one of the Servers had a dying iDRAC (Dell R320), I needed an USB stick.

Just like the home server ecosystem, the Network-Attached Storage landscape is riddled with cool distributions, packages, and web UIs you can use to build your own storage server. But for most folks, ...

There are a growing number of PC-on-a-stick devices featuring Intel Atom processors. Some run Windows. Others run Android. With a little elbow grease you can get some to run Ubuntu. But now we’re also ...