Problem one to be expected is ” I cannot Boot Linux Anymore”. It seems that you have successfully installed the Linux distro of your choice. Then one fine day you may a change to your Windows OS- Windows 09 , XP or Vista / System 7/ Suddenly Linux no longer seems to boot and indeed stops working. You no longer see the lilo boot prompt. so you can no longer specify that indeed you wan to boot Linux.

What to do ? It seems that various operating systems tend to think that they are the only ones in the universe. It not unlike media centers in Windows that when newly installed take over and make themselves l”King” the “default” setup.

Therefore when the new Operating System is installed they write things to the area of the system or specifically the hard drive – or now sometimes solid state “hard drives”, called the Master Boot Record (MBR). This process overlays and overwrites the basic Linux boot loader (called LILO) and stops you dead in your tracks from booting Linux.

Overall the best correction is a good prevention . Make an emergency floppy or usb stick as a boot disk.

Keep this handy, when you do update or change your system ( or during any other significant event in your “Linux career” , such as repartitioning your disks or rebuilding your kernel.

Thus if you make a mistake then you can boot with your boot device – be it floppy or usb stick , or cd / dvd.

Its not unlike safe mode in Windows.

Then when you have rebooted your system using your boot device , simply log on as “root”, then type LILO on the command line. This will repair the MBR ( Master Boot Record) reinstalling Lilo.

You are now off to the races !!!

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The question becomes – how long would this situation last if there was not tech support in terms of the neighbor / relative / teenager or other family member geek.  Would the Linux continued to run smoothly and trouble free without 24/7 support.  Windows may not be perfect but at least its meant for the masses in terms of overall durability and the numbers games.  That is most of the windows components be it the wireless utility or whatever are like vanilla and very scaled down.  1/10 of 1 % of windows users is more than a deluge of calls.  It only took the smallest , insignificant problem in a car line to be transferred into real life statistics of auto users to be called a lemon.  Its similar to Microsoft windows .  Its been field tested to a great degree- often users , who purchase the product , are beta testers to the greatest extent.  By the time most computers users receive and use their copies of Microsoft windows its been battle tested and in most cases will run – or if not in most cases its the knob behind the keyboard.

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Installs can be done by any of a number of means . The most common currently is from a CD or DVD into an optical drive that can read it. For example if the install is larger one – then a dvd rather than CDRom might be used. DVD readers and burners can read both CDs and DVDs wheras the converse is not true. A Cd reader or burner can not read a DVD .

CDs hold 640 mb of capacity. This is equivalent to 640 old 1 mb capacity floppy discs. A DVD generally holds approx 4.4 gb ( 1000 mb ) of data. A DVD holds the equivalent data of almost 7 (seven ) CDs. It used to be that CDS were run of the mill and blank DVDs were a lot more expensive – both the blank and by equivalent capacity. However this is not the case now. A blank DVD is approx the cost of a CD. However DVDs are less durable and more easily scratch able. One little scratch on a DVD can mean a whole wasted exercise of doing the Linux install. Worse than that the failure from the media install disc can happen right at the end of the process – having you scratch your head at the wasted time.

CDs are more durable. However in the summer time just a little bit of deposited dirt or grime can cause the same Linux OS install failure as that of the DVD. The answer – simply wipe the CD clean with water – a bit of soap if necessary. Wash the CD clearly – especially the downwards side which is the side which gets read by the optical drive reader. Most important dry both sides of the media – but with a very soft towel or even sock. Do not use a paper towel or tissue. This may scratch the install media.

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The beauty of Linux is that it is open source.  As users provide upgrades and fixes – whether because if a defieiency or mistake in the Linux software code , an improvement is made , or new computer hardwae is either introduced or becomes more mainstream and available.

The key is that the version of  the Linux distro you are using supports your hardware and the various components of it.  For example an older version of the same Distro might not support your sound card – hence no sound , or your wireless internet adapter wheras the newer one will .   Yet the newer “improved version of the Distro”  may be too demanding on an older throw away computer you have used to learn Linux with or just too slow.

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