Since nobody has thought of posting these two tutorials here yet, I’ll go ahead and toot my own horn again.
Everything you need to know is explained in human language in these two tutorials below. Read them, study them, print them out, and put a copy on your bedside table.
And if you dual-boot with Microsoft Windows, then you must disable Fast Boot and Hybrid Sleep in Windows, because they leave your Windows filesystems in an open state, and then the Linux kernel will mount them read-only so as to prevent filesystem corruption.
