I need to get Debian 8 running on my laptop. It is a Toshiba Satellite C40-C which seems to be a fairly new model. It is also a budget type, like a glorified netbook, but has come with Windows 10.
I have installed various versions of linux before on laptops and desktops no problem using a CD or DVD but this machine has no optical drive so I have been trying to use a usb stick. The bios is 32-bit uefi and the cpu is a dual core 64 bit Celeron. It has 2 gb ram and a 32 gb sd/mmc card built in instead of a hard disk. Windows 10 is installed with a recovery partition.
Progress so far:
I have resized the windows partition to give around 10gb available for Debian install.
I have downloaded the first DVD image and created a bootable 16gb usb stick with it with one of the recommended windows apps (not unetbootin) and this stick seems to work fine.
I have disabled Secure Boot in the bios. There is no option to change the 32 bit uefi to either 64 bit or to a legacy setup.
I have ran the Debian 8 install which seems to have worked. 2 partitions were created 8gb for the root filesystem ext4 and 2gb for swap.
The problem I have is after the install is finished and I remove the usb stick then reboot it just boots into Windows 10, there is no sign of Grub giving options of Debian or Windows. I believe that this problem is caused by the fact the SD/MMC card is used in place of a proper hard disk but I don't know how to fix this.
I have searched and read numerous articles but they either assume I can run a live cd (which I can't because of the 32 bit uefi bios) or have another linux machine, which I don't. I have a 32 bit Macbook with Snow Leopard on which I also plan to migrate to Debian so both will be the same, but will take a look at that after first resolving the problems with the Toshiba.
Ultimately I want to get rid of Windows 10 and just have Debian but want to make sure I can get everything working first. The Broadcomm ethernet adapter does not have a driver found during the install so there may be some other bits of hardware to sort out as well.
i had installed fedora and windows on my internal Harddisk earlier,then tried to install fedora on external USB hard disk,now my computer failed to boot from internal hard disk,when i unplugged the hard disk.
I am running a hp dv701175nr laptop and am booting ubuntu 11.04 from a usb flash drive. I can not seem to find my internal drive that has windows 7 stored on it. I tried to mount it but it give me this error:
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdb1 is already mounted on / mount failed
I can't use this operating system if I can't access my windows 7 drive and I really want to use this OS .
EDIT: Okay, so I think I have found my problem, but I don't know how to fix it, there are differences in my mtab and fstab commands, I will post what they say in a second, but I do not know how or what I need to do to change and make the settings right
My PC has an internal combustion engine.Yes, it has.Every morning, when it's cold (at my work place), I start my pc, and it takes a loooong-looooong time for debian etch to boot.And after it started, if I want to open a file / program / folder, it takes more than 2 minutes to open them.After about 10 minutes of PC being ON, everything goes back to normal speed.This started to happen since last winter.If I leave the heat on over night in my room at work, next day when I start my pc it works perfect from the first time.
I can't mount it, and also since apparently debian doesn't care about the nasty systemd but I had to deal with that but I digress.
I cannot mount my itnernal drive, and even memory cards are listed as "permission denied" even though I am part of the disks group. I know that before systemd I could just edit a udisks config file but I cannot find out where it'd even be.
I've included my /etc/fstab.
Code: Select all# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
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I am part of the disks group, and am 90% sure that I edited the udisks file that says something about mount internal disk to allow active from allow_admin
The only udev rules that i've changed was the one to change the mount point for external drives to /media/drive_label instead of /media/$username/drive_label
Basically I'm trying to automount the partition after clicking on it in the file manager.
I installed debian 7 and apache 2.2 with virtualhosts. I'd like to run CGI, but always get internal server error. i tested it with a simple test.cgi file.I got this in apache error log.Wed Sep 30 21:39:02 2015] [error] [client 192.168.0.156] Premature end of script headers: test.cgi
When is switch off "Addhandler cgi-script .cgi" in the config file i see the code. Permissions are 755 on the whole directory. I have checked a2enmod, the modul is loaded (sudo a2enmod cgi)..here are the part of config files :
Is it possible to use connect to the Internet using my internal modem which i have in my laptop using debian.. Please do help.Ofcourse i can do this with the windows 7 which is also installed in my lap.. I have a MSI laptop with model no. vr440..[color=#404040][/color]
I'm a new user of "Debian Squeeze", using the testing repositories, and it's de first time that I post in this forum. I'm very happy to become a member of Debian comunity. Well, I want to change the "beep" sound of the internal speaker to another sound. I mean to any sound on my external speakers. I've searched about it but I haven't found anything useful.
So I'm running proftpd on an old machine just for my own backup purposes, but I'm running out of space. I was wondering if it would be safe/efficent to set up an additional USB hard drive to the LVM drive that I have now? As in, would it write quick enough (USB 2.0), read quick enough and not corrupt data?
How can I install linux using an external hard drive? ANy help would be greatly appreciated. I dont have any CD's or anything and this is my only option.
SO how can I install linux FROM my external HDD ONTO my internal HDD?
I have an acer timelinex 5830tg notebook. After weeks of frustration, i finally have a linux setup that is stable. Thank god for debian. I don't know why I mess with anything else. Anyway, i'm unable to get my built in laptop speakers to work. I get sound through headphone jack, and I hear sound coming from the built in speakers for a split second when plugging in/unplugging my AC adaptor.Let me know if there is any other output needed, which may assist in this issue. Hopefully someone can help me out.
i'm facing an error 500 internal error and i don't know where to start .... How can i get information about the error in order to fix it ???at /var/log/apache2/error.log i can't find anythingi have virtualmin installed , i searched at/var/log/virtualmin/domainname_error_log but nothing .... where is apache supposed to keep log for 500 errors ?
Recently purchased a Lenovo B40-70 Dec 15 Make and isntalled Debian Jessie as the only operating system. Everything seems to work fine except internal microphone.
I have entries under ports of pavucontrol - Internal Microphone - Microphone (unplugged)
I changed amplification levels of left and right channels (as some suggested having right and left at same level cancel each other thus producing no audio). I've added entries such as Code: Select alloptions snd-hda-intel model=laptop to non existing alsa-base.conf in /etc/modprobe.d/. - No effect
Haven't seen Lenovo internal microphone problems offlate in forums or QA Boards, so asking it here again.
Also, I'm planning to buy a USB microphone : [URL].....
Will this work out of the box to make skype calls ?
I've been thinking of buying a new internal hard drive, mostly because my 40 GB drive is beginning to get a little crowded. I haven't bought a hard drive in many years, so I don't know what brands are currently reliable. Years ago, I heard that the larger drives were much less reliable, but in recent years I have heard that is no longer true, so that it is cost effective to get a larger drive.
I've recently acquired a little 10" netbook (Acer Aspire One D255) and am running Debian squeeze on it. It runs great except for the internal SD card reader, which doesn't do anything. If I have a USB card reader handy then it works fine, but it would be nice to have the internal card reader working if possible.
/var/log/messages says this:usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf2, idProduct=6250 usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=4 usb 1-5: Product: UB6250 usb 1-5: Manufacturer: ENE FlashBut no device is created and nothing can be mounted.
Doing a little searching reveals many similar complaints from last year, without particularly satisfactory solutions, but I can't find anything more recent. Does anyone know if there's a Debian fix for this yet? By which I mean a simple fix involving adding a module package or maybe upgrading to a wheezy kernel or something like that?
I have Etch running in my laptop. I found that if the laptop is only running on battery, the disk seems to performs slower than if I running on a power adapter. How do I possibly check the setting and fix it?
I'm the only user on the system most of the time and I keep it as minimal as possible so it's not other services and programs keeping the disk busy.
tried android usb internet tethering from your android with an usb cable to your laptop. zero configuration, the connection is detected as Enternet Usb and there you go Working 100%, quite simple
Just installed sid on a new system and I'm having a problem with pulseaudio.I have a motherboard with built-in Realtek audio, and the system should use that for everything except the system bell, which goes through the internal PC speaker that's connected to the motherboard.It works that way on the console. If I type C-g in Emacs, the pc speaker beeps, same with bash completion etc, while aplay will play wav files through the external speakers connected to the sound card. It's perfect.
Now in X, pulse doesn't know what to do. It defaults to the external sound card speakers, so they play all "normal" sounds (like music files) but when I type C-g in Emacs, there's a drip sound that comes out of the speakers. The internal PC speaker doesn't beep at all.I'm using GNOME 3, and I like it, so I can't just purge pulse because it wants to take GNOME with it. If I go to setup > sound, "Line Out - Built-in Audio" is selected, but I have another option for "Analog Output - pcsp" ... that's the snd_pcsp module for the internal speaker. If I select that, it plays the same sound files but through the internal speaker. So when I do C-g in emacs, the beep does come from the internal speaker, but it's not the normal beep you hear in the console -- it's actually the same ogg (or wav or whatever) file that makes the drip sound from the speakers! And worse, if I sleect the pcsp option in setup, it uses the internal speaker for EVERYTHING - including playing audio music files, watching YouTube, whatever! And naturally the sound is very horrible and fuzzy.
Is there any way to tell pulse that I want to use my motherboard's soundcard for everything but the beep, just like in the console?
I had (and still do) a working dual-boot XP/Karmic (GRUB version 1.97 beta4). I shrank the Ubuntu partition and set up partitions and installed Debian 5.04. When I got to the point of installing GRUB, I told Debian to install grub to MBR. On rebooting, Ubuntu was not an option on the NEW (looked different) grub menu.Maybe it was GRUB2? Could boot to either XP or Debian though.
Thought easiest thing was to reinstall Ubuntu since it seems to "see" other OS's more reliably. So I did, and installed GRUB again during its install to MBR. Then, all three were in the GRUB menu (version 1.97 beta4 again), but when tried booting to Debian, got an error (forget the wording), but think it was because the partitions got renumbered when installing Ubuntu.
SO, reinstalled Debian, reformatting the partitions but not deleting them first so the numbering stayed the same. When got to the part for installing GRUB, I told it to skip (I got some kind of error that said "Install failed. This is a fatal error. You will have to boot with an external device..."), hoping now the current GRUB would work.
Now, all three were on the GRUB menu, but when I tried to boot Debian, I got "no such device" and a list of numbers/letters after it. And "press any key to continue", which takes you back to the GRUB menu (version 1.97 beta4, by the way).
O.K., did sudo update-grub in ubuntu and rebooted. Now, Debian 5.04 shows as last entry in GRUB, and choosing it starts a boot, which hangs at "Begin: Waiting for root file system....".
Waiting long enough at the "Waiting for root file system..." hang results in a series of notifications:
WARNING bootdevice may be renamed. Try root=dev/hda3 Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: -Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) -Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) -Check root= (did the sytem wait for the right device?) -Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! /dev/sda3 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
In Gparted, the partition with Debian root is hdc3, although on the GRUB menu it's listed as /dev/sda3. However, in Gparted the Windows partition is hdc1 and on GRUB it's /dev/sda1, and it boots fine.....
Is my Debian install just borked? Did telling it to skip installing a bootloader (I got some kind of error that said "Install failed. This is a fatal error. You will have to boot with an external device..." ruin it?
If skipping the bootloader install did ruin it, how do you install Debian without borking your current GRUB? That's what happened the first time.
when I try to update my Debian, I have the following internal error:Error message:Fetch failed: W:Failed to fetch [URL] Unable to find expected entry free/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?), W:Failed to fetch [URL] Unable to find expected entry free/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?) , W:Failed to fetch [URL] Unable to find expected entry free/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?), E:Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
I have bunch of partitions on my Debian server installation, so I was experimenting with partitions and saw that is one partition fails fsck on booting time, system waits for root password or CTRL+D key combination. The problem is that my Debian machine is headless and I use only SSH to it. So if fsck fails, I can't to login to SSH (off course, because it is not loaded at this time). So I need to go with monitor and keyboard to machine and press CTRL+D.One option is to disable disk checking at startup by changing fstab file. I don't like this option. Is there any possibility to auto continue booting Debian machine ?
Want to boot from ISO on usb with grub. Both the netinst and hd-media netinst initrds have no findiso/iso-scan/fromiso option that allows me to locate the iso file in question. Is there a boot parameter that does it? Do I need to download a new initrd version? Is there any debian build AT ALL that allows mounting iso from usb?
How can I run a Debain ISO from a USB using GRUB4DOS like Boot Multiple ISO from USB (MultiBoot USB)? This way I can keep several install disks on one USB key.
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title Debian live find --set-root /debian-504-amd64-CD-1.iso map /debian-504-amd64-CD-1.iso (0xff) map --hook
I have mounted an NFS share with ISO images on my kvm Server. If i connect such a iso to a VM (using virt-manager) for installing a operating system i get the following error on startup: Error starting domain: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 qemu: could not open disk image /mnt/iso/public/Linux/Distributions/Debian/debian-504-amd64-netinst.iso: Permission denied
The problem is definitly that kvm (or qemu or libvirt-bin, i don't know) tries to set permissions (rwx owner for libvirt-qemu, --- for kvm group, --- for other) on the file, although it has read permissions. Is it possible to change this behavior?
Yesterday I tried to install some packages via synaptic manager and it rendered my system without GUI and without network so apt-get does not work to fix it.
I made a clone of my hard disk with dd a month ago and have daily backups of my data.
My hard disk in the laptop is a SSD. (sda) the external hard disk is an laptop hard disk connected via a USB IDE connector (sdb)
today my system booted from the sdb hard disk. Which was unexpected. I am updating the data on sdb now. the problem I have now is that I can not access sda. How am I supposed to mount it ? My plan was to overwrite sda with sdb
after shutting down, disconnection sdb, rebooting and connecting sdb again I tried
first time with debootstrap, i followed: [URL] the error i get on boot looks like this:
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they did not mention lvm speficically so i just installed lvm2 inside the chroot and created my fstab like this:
Code: Select all/dev/mapper/debian--unstable-root / ext4  errors=remount-ro 0    1 /dev/mapper/debian--unstable-home /home ext4  defaults    0    2 /dev/mapper/debian--unstable-tmp /tmp    ext4  defaults    0    2 /dev/mapper/debian--unstable-var /var  ext4  defaults    0    2
Having one mounted from jessie looks like this:
Code: Select all/dev/mapper/debian--unstable-root on /home/julius/other-systems/debian-unstable type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
So I guess the fstab is correct
I already tried to "refresh" the inittab with:
Code: Select allupdate-initramfs -u command ran ok, but no change at boot.
I am struggling to get Debian 8 stable to boot on an apple powermac g5. I installed using guided partitioning, and chose the all on one partition scheme. I am able to select the Debian hard disk from the boot drive selector from mac. I get to the first stage bootstrap, press L for Linux, and then it simply redirects me back to the drive selection. However, after I'm redirected the colors are messed up.
Upon booting, how can I know which program starts first? Also, how can I force something to start after something else? For instance, how do I make sure that everything I deem as "not urgent" to load after the GUI and also how do I make sure things like firestarter start before fail2ban, etc?
