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 ...

What I did to solve it is to manually select partitions and make it one megabyte smaller, so I didn't use the full partition. After that the problem didn't show up anymore. I hope such problems won't ...

My previous post on Linux Mint Debian Edition 201303 has obviously uncovered a lot of confusion about EFI booting and GPT partition tables. I hope that I can explain it all a bit more, with a couple ...