It's been years since I built my own rig, so I lack the knowledge on how to go about setting up a dual boot these days. When I built my last rig it was only for Windows. I'm not looking to run OSs on ...

Automatic partitioning is safe and fast for standard installs—choose it if unsure. Manual partitioning is needed if you dual-boot, use LVM, or want separate filesystems for different partitions. Plan ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...