Debian Hardware :: Any Tools That Can Completely Nuke HD BLANK?
Jan 28, 2010
Are there any tools that can completely nuke a HD "BLANK"?and I don't mean just wiping the contents.I tried nuking a HD using the Gparted Live-CD to remove the partitions.The only problem is it kept GRUB. Since then I have failed to install any distributions of Linux and I have tried several. They all hang at some point. I had a Debian Lenny v5.03 Net Install on it previously before the NUKE but the same disk I used them and the current one I re-downloaded both hangs.In other I need a completely blank HD. No Boot sector, no Master Boot Record (MBR),
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Apr 8, 2010
I checked xen-tools on a Debian Lenny system
Got following
Code:
This package contains tools to manage Debian based XEN virtual servers.
Using the scripts you can easily create fully configured Xen guest domains (domU) which can be listed, updated, or copied easily.
Homepage: [url] in the above output I am getting a line Conffiles and then you can see a series of /etc what are that and is it an error or some conflict?
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Jun 21, 2011
i am a novice with linux but i love to use it. i am using ubuntu on an acer aspire5736z and after putting 10 on mysystem in conjunction with windows 7 (choose os at start up), i updated to 11. however after the installation had reset the computer, the screen is completely blank. i can hear the start up music so i know it has started but nothing!
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Dec 15, 2008
I'm having trouble trying to get a thread dump for tomcat. I have tried the following and none seems to work:
kill -3 <pid>
kill -QUIT <pid>
killall -3 java
Nothing shows up on screen. I also tried putting the out of the dump to a file with the > command but the file is blank.
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Mar 13, 2010
Downloaded xsensors from repository but screen is just completely blank?
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Apr 29, 2010
Is there any way to nuke the stupid kde4.4 desktop folder and actually get a "normal" desktop back (icons are actually on the desktop instead of contained in the "desktop folder") ?
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Mar 1, 2011
found a deal-breaker bug for me in KDE 4.6 (kontact no longer syncs with google-resource). So I'm trying to revert to kde 4.5. I did a fresh install of 10.10 on a USB drive, then upgraded to 4.6 (to see if the problem was with KDE or my original install got buggered). Then I tried to downgrade using ppa-purge. Now I can't boot into KDE at all. I get the KDM login, and can boot into gnome from there, but when I boot into KDE it starts to load and then kicks me back to the login screen. I tried purging every KDE package on the system, deleting my .kde directory and reinstalling, but same problem. No error messages that I can find in the logs. So I need to figure out how to totally remove KDE and reinstall (best). If I do this on my main drive, I'd like to keep my settings as well. Alternatively, what would be the best way to do a fresh 10.10 install? Should I just backup my /home directory, and start from scratch on the main drive (currently only 1 main+swap partition on the drive)?
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Dec 5, 2010
I just did a fresh install of Slackware 13.0 on a Toshiba laptop, and the ONLY thing I did on it after creating a user and switching to init 4 was to run upgrades. After doing so several applications failed to launch, so I rebooted the machine. I get the following error followed by a login prompt:
Code:
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shaed object file: no such file or directory And nobody can log in, including root. I've got another laptop running 13.0 with all the latest upgrades and it runs fine.
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Apr 16, 2010
When writing a script using command-line tools why is it more difficult using graphical tools?
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Sep 2, 2010
I need to install the scripts of angstrom distribution
ie ARM gcc..................how to install the scrpits from the site [url]
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Oct 29, 2010
i have udftools_1.0.0b3.orig.tar.gz and udftools_1.0.0b3-14.diff.gz with me. how can i compile and install it ? i do not have an internet access on my desktop pc..
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Jul 6, 2011
I was experiencing some latency issues when loading KDE on my (squeeze) HTPC box, so I decided to replace the system drive with one that was a bit faster (and larger). Faced with the unpleasantness of having to repeat the many troubleshooting and configuration issues I had with the previous installation, I decided to copy a known good installation. As it turned out it didn't make much difference. I still spent several hours reconfiguring screen and font resolutions, setting up a wireless bridge, removing unnecessary server components, reconfiguring apt proxy settings, resetting hostname and IP addresses, and getting passthrough audio working again.
Anway, once completed, the system was much more responsive, so I was happy--until I tried to burn an ISO to the DVD. When K3b loads it informs me that it is missing several necessary applications, including cdrecord, cdrdao, mkisofs, etc. All the necessary applications were installed and working on the original system which I copied. I verified their existence on the new installation via "aptitude search <packagename>". I even performed a reinstall of said packages. Nevertheless, K3b refuses to detect their existence.Just to be clear, all my boxen are built to standard. Same motherboard, same CPU, same memory, same HDDs, same DVD burners. I do this purposely to avoid just these sorts of issues. I don't see how a working configuration on one machine can fail on another. I am beginning to believe that this is yet more evidence to support my theory that the universe is not only unpredictable, but arbitrary and inconsistent and possibly even perverse.
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Jan 27, 2016
I'm learning the apt-get package system, and I'm a little unsure of myself. Before I start removing packages/software, I want to make sure that I'm initially taking the proper approach.
Below is a script that I've used to successfully install Skype into Debian 8.2 "Jessie" 64-bit. (This script is a slightly modified version taken from: wiki.debian.org/skype). I want to know the right way to uninstall it.
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dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update
apt-get install libc6:i386 libqt4-dbus:i386 libqt4-network:i386 libqt4-xml:i386 libqtcore4:i386 libqtgui4:i386 libqtwebkit4:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libx11-6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxss1:i386 libxv1:i386 libssl1.0.0:i386 libpulse0:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386
wget -O skype-install.deb [URL]
dpkg -i skype-install.deb
apt-get -f install
Now that I've installed Skype, how do I *UNINSTALL* Skype?
Will the following code completely remove the software added above, or will some "software-residue" be left behind, or will it remove other software that should have been left untouched?
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apt-get purge skype libc6:i386 libqt4-dbus:i386 libqt4-network:i386 libqt4-xml:i386 libqtcore4:i386 libqtgui4:i386 libqtwebkit4:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libx11-6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxss1:i386 libxv1:i386 libssl1.0.0:i386 libpulse0:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386
apt-get clean
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Jan 29, 2012
I installed Debian without desktop enviroment and then I aptitude installed fluxbox, everything worked fine, but I wanted to try LXDE so I purged fluxbox and installed LXDE.But my old computer is too slow now. I purged the LXDE, but it is still here and it didn`t remove as many packages as it installed them, I also removed lxde-core, but it continues to work.
How could I get back to non-desktop enviroment without reinstalling the whole system?
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Aug 21, 2011
Libre Office can be removed from Ubuntu 11.04 without making a mess of an installation but when I began ot attempt the same with Debian I was concerned it would take too much necessary stuff with it requiring a fresh install. I use Abiword and don't need Open Office. Can it be removed somehow cleanly? How would I do this? I partly want to do this as there seem to be a lot of Open Office-related Updates which is waste of my Mobile Broadband limit.I am using Debian 6.01, 64 bit Gnome edition.
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Apr 14, 2011
i want to know a couple of things
1) how can i set my terminal's background completely transparent like opensuse and not just show desktop wallpaper.
2) how can i set its default height and width from 80x24 to 80x38.
debain 6.0 gnome.
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Apr 18, 2011
When installing Debian, I had to left out 2 windows partition because I originally thought I could install Debian into Windows C: drive. Then I knew I had been wrong. After I moved the data of the 2 partitions out of the hard disk today, I want to merge these partitions into the linux file system.Is this possible without a reinstall? How can I do this?
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Apr 4, 2011
How to completely disable hibernation in Debian Squeeze (with KDE). If it's impossible to disable it for whole system, I want to hide button in KDE menu.
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Jul 11, 2011
I have deb6 installed in VMWARE ,i am posting my fstab config file
/dev/mapper/debian-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=0e7bc1e7-4f8c-4dee-a6e9-ae6d0669755e /boot ext2 defaults $
/dev/mapper/debian-home /home ext4 defaults 0 2
[code]....
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Sep 9, 2010
i just installed debian with a net installation but it installed gnome now i want to completely remove gnome and install kde, how do i do this?
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Feb 16, 2011
I downloaded and installed Debian Squeeze from a CD (a 700~mb file), but I seem to be missing a lot of things; mainly any wireless internet tools! I searched through aptitude and I couldn't find any sort of package. Do all copies of Debian (I downloaded the CD-1 file from a http mirror) have network tools such as network-manager-gnome?
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Apr 30, 2010
I installed hardinfo and it shows up in synaptic. but when I click on Applications, system tools, hardinfo does not show up there.
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Jul 3, 2010
I swap hard disk from one machine to another. Now when I do ifconfig all I see is lo interface listed, eth0 disappeared.
Is there a way for debian to reconsider what drivers to load for eth0 ?
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Apr 28, 2011
apt-get install synaptic returned 0 installed 0 updated. I assume from this it is installed. There is no icon in 'application/system tools'. Is there something I might try? Is there a way to call this from terminal?
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Nov 11, 2015
My Keepass2 window is completely black in Gnome. Its possible to open my database and use autotype, but I cant edit anything coz its black. Everything works from KDE.
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Mar 17, 2011
I have corrupted my /usr/ partition. I thought I recovered my server thingies okay. The problem is with gnome desktop. It won't show the login screen and furthermore there's a lot of error in ldconfig messages -- because of the corrupted /usr/ partition.I started picking out these erring files -- using aptitude purge and the rm command if it cannot be purged...That's how I tried to clean my /usr/ corrupted partition.How do I know I managed to cleanly removed all traces of the desktop gnome? -- also how could I install the desktop again.
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May 1, 2011
when Gnome starts my Desktop completely freezes. So I decided to reinstall and install Gnome2. When Debian is freshly installed I still need to configure and install my ATI 6950 Graphic card and the X config. Since the latest drivers from ATI I can use the --initial config from ATI. This all seems to work. But also when I use Gnome2 my screen completely freezes. I don't see any special things in my logs. I do remember that with my previous PC I had the same problem. This was the "first" reason why I left Debian for my desktop.
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Jul 6, 2011
After the unsolved problems i had with the 2.6.39 kernel update a few weeks ago, reported here, now, I've installed the updates released today, and now, on the old Kernel, my X SERVER is dead..The boot on the new kernel is still completely dead.The boot with the old kernel goes directly do command line..
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Apr 21, 2014
I just set up my USB drive with debian wheezy and the first time I boot with it, I was able to choose install options but I shut down my computer and now when I attempt to boot with my USB the screen is black (after esc F9 and choosing the USB) so I tried dd debian.iso a few more times but I am convinced that my USB needs to get completely wiped so that I can put the debian.iso back on and try again.
Any terminal command that can wipe USB drive?
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May 24, 2009
How can I remove completely flash player from iceweasel ?And so that it is also totally remove from Debian..Why flash player is not working..The only message I get is flash player is not responding.Did not give any other messages
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