Debian Configuration :: "Burning" .iso To Hard Drive?
Feb 11, 2011
I like installing and trying out Linux distributions on my computer. However, rather than burn the .iso files to a CD or DVD, why not use free space on my hard drive instead? Is this possible? It would certainly make things easier on me.
I currently have installed Debian 5.0.7 and Linux Mint Debian Edition. For those who do not know, LMDE is based on Debian Testing and uses the same repositories. Also, I have 80GB free on a 300GB drive. Id like to use part of the space as an "installer partition", where I can install installer .isos, boot off that partition, and install from there onto the additional free space.
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Aug 24, 2015
when I type 'fdisk -l' I get the following:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 16065 584830259 584814195 278.9G f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 16128 584830259 584814132 278.9G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
I have 2 hard drives both are 278.9GB in a mirror raid 1. Why does 2 partitions show up? Are they referring to each physical hard drive? I want to believe that this is the same partition and not two different physical hard drives since both are in the same 'start' and 'end' range. Is that correct?
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Sep 10, 2010
I am new to debian and recently I have been working with a debian server. I have been asked to find out how to create a script that you can run or can be run by another program to format and mount a new hard disk?
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May 14, 2011
My problem is that my debian in hard drive 1 wont load, gives me a fatal error.
This is my computer:
Hard drive 1 (1TB): broken debian 333gb, windows7 666GB (approximately)
Hard drive 2 (250GB): debian (working fine, im using it now).
Details: I tried to install some webcam software thing and I think somehow i deleted some system files... ...So now when I start my computer, grub loads and i choose Debian on hard drive 1,i click it but when it goes through the list of things, it says
FATAL ERROR /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko: No such file or directory
And it just goes to a blank screen with a blinking cursor.
Now that's not all. I did something else wrong... I ran Gparted from a usb stick to create an extra partition on hard drive 1 because i was trying to install another linux on it or something so I can access my computer.
But, when I tried to shrink it and create an extra partition on the disk of about 150gb, it was taking so long and i read that it may take about 40 hours, so i turned it off after a few hours. So, I may have created more problems than my original problem.... I can still boot into Windows 7 though.
So now i have:
Hard drive 1 (1TB): broken debian about 120gb, windows7 666gb (approximately), free partition
Hard drive 2 (250GB): debian (working fine, im using it now).
Also, of interest: When I look at the folders of the messed up debian, there is nothing in the /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel folder. Empty.
So basically. my problem is that I get the fatal error, and then maybe i create some extra problem by stopping the partitioning when it wasnt done. so please help me try to fix the fatal error first
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Jul 1, 2011
I am making backups and I need to make a cron job that mounts a 2nd local hard drive.
It is not listed in my fstab file and I mount it manually in nautilus (having to type a password). It is designated as /dev/sdb1 and /media/repo when it is mounted. Can I get cron to mount it and then add the password or do I have to add it to fstab?
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Aug 3, 2011
I have a PC104 running debian. I have 3 hard drives (in addition to the one booting) mounted in fstab by UUID. I use the options defaults,error=remount-ro. However, this means that when I boot with the hard drives not attached, I have to press Ctrl-D to bypass when the boot discovers the drives are missing. Is there a timeout commandoption I can add to fstab so that it automatically continues booting even if the hard drives are not attached? I could not find anything on a timeout command. (I tried adding timeout=1000 but no-random guess)
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Jan 31, 2011
In MS Windows, I used a program to re-image my hard drive. It was a great way to keep my OS configurations backed up in case of trouble. Linux is more stable, but I'm capable of doing more damage to it. So is there a good way to re-image this HD? I don't see the old MS program (Acronis) for Linux. Or, is there a way to save all of the synaptic programs I have downloaded so that I could more easily reload them if needed?
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Jan 25, 2010
I got a dell inspiron 1501 laptop with a 80Gb sata drive what is the best solution to add data storage space for someone that love to have multiples operating systems at hand Note: I use mostly linux so I won't need to change my laptop for many years maybe ...
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Apr 8, 2011
I have a Video DVD on HDD. Complete structure in VIDEO_TS folder. Problem is I can't find a program to successfully burn it. Brasero doesn't even have an option for Video DVD. The Video DVD option it has wants to try and do encoding or something. It doesn't even take the VIDEO_TS folder. If you choose data disc and burn the VIDEO_TS folder then the disc don't work in stand-alone DVD players and only works on the Linux pc itself.
Gnomebaker has the same problem as above.
K3B doesn't want to work. Just keeps giving the error "Unable to determine size of image".
So where to turn ? Is there an app for Ubuntu that can actually burn a video dvd to be playable in a stand-alone dvd player ?
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Jan 26, 2011
how to install fedora 14 dvd iso from hard disk without burning a dvd. On internet i found 2 articles which are mostly copy pasted on all sites. Dont know whether the same is valid for now. I have currently windows xp running on my 1st hdd on which i intend to install fedora 14 on a logical partition. i have ubuntu 10.04 running on my second hdd.
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Mar 16, 2010
My parents bought a new hard drive for a laptop that I've owned for several years. It's much larger than the current one, so I plan on splitting it up to dual boot it with Ubuntu.I have no problem with partitioning a drive (I always keep a LiveCD handy), but my question is this: how can I go about moving the existing partition to the new drive? This is a laptop, so I can't simply plug the new drive into another slot.
Also, even if I manage to move it, will Windows still work on the new drive in a larger partition? I've had this laptop for quite a while, and I've lost the recovery discs that came with it a long time ago. I also have a lot of software without CDs to reinstall them with. This makes not reinstalling Windows a high priority.
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Aug 13, 2010
Debian and debian based distros issue has a issue that has come to make it self aware to me when I was trying to burn a video on my hard drive with braseo and it won't let me burn more than 4.4 gigs to a dvd with 4.7 gigs of free space even a file that is over the 4.4 gig limit by a megabyte with windows i didn't have this problem. One more thing I have 16 gig flash drive and on debian and debian based distros i can only use 13.1 gigs of it but on fedora I can use all 16 gigs.
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May 1, 2010
Trying to install Fedora 12 using the 6 CDs. Trying to install on an older x86 box.Problem is that when detecting my hard drive, Fedora 12 recognizes it as a sda hard drive instead of hda hard drive. I have no SCSI connected to my computer what so ever. It's an old fashion PATA Western Digital hard drive.If I proceed with the install, Fedora 12 only installs 200MB of the OS from the first CD only. No options for additional software or anything.
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Mar 21, 2009
Sometimes when I do anything write heavy such as transferring backup or downloading large files from the net, the machine crashes almost completely.
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Feb 11, 2015
I've bought a new notebook. The hard drive won't stop spinning down and then spinning up again during load. I don't want HD power saving, so I disabled it within
1. /etc/hdparm.conf
Code: Select all# -B apm setting
apm = 255
# -B apm setting when on battery
apm_battery = 255
It didn't work. I can still hear the HD spin up. It's annoying in a video game because things just suddenly stop for a second.
2. /etc/udev/rules.d/50-hdparm.rules
Code: Select allACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="sda", RUN+="/usr/bin/hdparm -B 255 -S 0 /dev/sda"
This was also every tip I could find during RTFM.
Other specs:
Acer Aspire E5-521G-88A8 Notebook
AMD A8-6410 APU
4 GB RAM
AMD Radeon R5 2 GB VRAM
hdparm model number: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
Debian Jessie
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Dec 31, 2010
Is there a command line tool to shut off/spin down the hard disk either when not in use or when something is typed into the console? I'm trying to save power in a laptop I have..
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Dec 11, 2010
I am using KDE 4.5 and I am unable to mount a hard drive in Dolphin.
I get the error message:org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.PermissionDenied: Refusing to mount device /dev/sdb1 for uid=1000
The filesystem for the drive that I want to mount is ext4 and the label is "repo"
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Feb 26, 2015
Is there a way to save the iso dvd. So that I do not have to put them in when adding programs.
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May 22, 2010
I have a secondary NTFS hard drive in which i can not mount. Here is the output for fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Jul 9, 2010
I just installed a Sata WD 500GB hard drive, shows up in BIOS as secondary master drive, but do not see it after boot. What gives?
tone@homeserver:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 9.2G 3.3G 5.5G 38% /
tmpfs 881M 0 881M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 740K 9.3M 8% /dev
tmpfs 881M 0 881M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2 65G 197M 61G 1% /srv
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Feb 22, 2010
How much should I consider allocating if I wanted to go a bit beyond a "Live CD" experience but not quite as far as making it my A-1 Linux? My first experience with Linux (or Unix) and GUI together was LinuxPPC on a 603e Mac clone. That was on an 8GB drive (that used to call a RAID server its home, incidentally). Then I had OS X, versions 10.1 and 10.2 on a G3 iMac (40GB boot drive), followed by OS X 10.3 Jaguar on a G4 Dual 1.25 MDD. The power supply died on that -- a $300 item when you can find one with the right pinouts.
In x86 land, on this Lenovo M55p (80gb boot, 1GB RAM, Windows XP Pro SP3 as the primary installed OS), I've sampled GNOME and KDE thanks to Wubi installs that were 15Gb and 25Gb, respectively. I also have an IBM Thinkpad T54 (1.25GB RAM, also 80GB boot) onto which I've installed Ubuntu 9.04.
I understand that Debian has no Wubi counterpart; that it runs strictly on X-ready file systems (Ext2, Ext3 come to mind as examples with which I am vaguely familiar). I have also heard, often enough to start believing it, that Ubuntu and its K & X variants are derived from Debian. I get the impression, however, that for a decent install of it, somewhat more than 15 or 25 GB may be required.
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Aug 20, 2015
I am having some troubles with my networking. I have a fresh install of Debian 4.0.4-1. My problem is: I boot up and everything is great.
Code: Select all~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:68:46:4b:ae
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
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I try to switch the hardware switch on and off with no avail. The only way to fix it is to reboot. But then when I ifconfig down and up I'm stuck in airplane mode again.
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Mar 16, 2016
I have just set up a high available San with 2 nodes which run on debian 7.
Replication and high disponibility works fine but i have some problem with iscsi.
I have create on 2 windows server 2012 1 iscsi iniator on each, my problem is when i create a file or a directory on one server, I have to put the hard drive offline then online and the change appear but it's not really useful.
So i would like to know if there is a way to automatically do this.
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Aug 22, 2010
I have a new install of debian on my laptop. When I plug in my external hard drive (usb) I get the message. Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume 'External Drive'.
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Jan 4, 2016
Trying to go through some old hard drives I'd saved from a Mac we tossed years ago. Using a Sabrent USB adapter (USB-DSC9) I connected it to the Debian box and it mounts as /media. Here's the weird thing: although I can read all the random stuff, the directory with all my actual documents shows up as "you do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents". When I try to fix this with chmod, it tells me that the drive is read-only. Grr.
How do I mount the drive so that it's not read-only?
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Feb 16, 2010
If i install a brand-new hd, do i have to do anything to it? I mean format or
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=1024 bs=1024
or can i just install the hd and go on to install debian?
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May 17, 2011
I notice a bunch of weird what appear to be hard drive related error messages on my Linux server:
May 16 19:07:38 ghost kernel: [ 3495.452698] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
May 16 19:07:38 ghost kernel: [ 3495.452706] ata3: EH complete
May 16 19:07:40 ghost kernel: [ 3497.380640] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
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I don't know if this could be an indication that my hard drive(s) are about to fail. Can someone tell me if there's a way to test the drives or understand what's causing this error?
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Jun 11, 2011
I have a 500 GB drive that has a bad "place" at the beginning of the drive. It affected both the MBR and the first 40 GB partition. I just installed a 1 TB (why not?) replacement, but I'm wondering if I can get some future use from the bad drive.
I recall there are programs that will identify and lock out bad sectors on a drive, but I can't remember any specific names. Does Linux have such a critter? Is the MBR in a fixed location on a drive, or could such a utility lock out the bad MBR and allow the creation of a new one in good space?
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Jan 12, 2010
installed debian yesterday my problem is when running debian lenny on a gateway t1628 laptop, my computers hard drive is always spinning when running debian andt caused the computer to over heat and shut down automaticly.At least I think its the hard drive. when I use vista I don't have this problem. It has over heated a few times but I was running a lot of processes and had the hard drive loaded with a bunch of resource hogging programs.I'm running the amd64 architecture. I also haven't been able to configure the network yet. I had problems with that on the install but I need to take one problem at a time and being able to run for extended periods of time is first and formost.
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Aug 9, 2010
If this has been covered before I couldn't find it.
What I'm "Not" Asking... I'm not asking about installing the CD image to a USB hard drive to boot a live install version. I've done that to see is my computer will boot from the USB and it does.
What I want to do is this:
An actual hard disk install of full featured Linux to a portable USB Hard Drive. I want to be able to plug in the USB HHD and go Linux. (Why you might ask? Fair enough. The laptop is my wife's computer and she says absolutely no to Linux.
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