Debian Installation :: Installing From Live Cd On

Jul 22, 2010

I have a 300GB RAID0 setup that already has Windows 7 on it. I shrunk the RAID0 disk within Windows disk management to make room for a Debian install. The thing is that I don't want to screw up the MBR and screw up windows. What is the command to install once I'm in the live cd and once I get a boot loader option what should I do as I already have windows 7?

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Debian Installation :: Installing Live USB - What ISO Files To Download

Jan 8, 2015

I have a USB which I want to use for a 'live' debian OS. I have debian 7.7 on hard disk and will be using Unetbootin to transfer the .iso file onto the USB.

However, when I go the debian archive there are so many iso files for the particular debian pkg [URL] .... There's iso, iso.contents, iso.log, iso.packages and iso.zsync. Do I download all of these iso files?

I'll be doing a Code: Select allsha256sums <iso-filename> to make sure the downloads aren't corrupted. But when I use Unetbootin and get it to write the main .iso file onto USB, do I then repeat this process with all the other iso files for the OS?

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Debian :: Installing Software On A Live CD

Jul 5, 2010

If I run, let's say, Linux Mint from Live CD without installing it on HDD and perform

It installs Gnome Commander but where? To RAM or to HDD?

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Fedora Installation :: If Installing From The Live CD - Must Have At Least Two Partitions Available ?

Jun 10, 2009

Due to a combination of factors, if installing from the Live CD, you must have at least two partitions available. One will be a small (around 200 MB) /boot partition. The / (root filesystem) partition must be formatted as ext4 while the /boot partition must be formatted as ext2 or ext3.

The normal installation CD set and DVDs don't have this issue.

If you choose to install the Live CD and don't follow this scheme (you can, of course, have additional partitions besides /boot and /), the LiveCD won't install.

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Fedora Installation :: Trouble Installing Via Live CD

Sep 12, 2009

I boot it up using the live cd then try to install it to my hard drive. I want to dual boot Vista and Fedora, so I've created another partition.However I'm having trouble whilst installing. When I get to the stage to select where I want to install it I choose the "Custom" choice. It is then also obvious what partition to choose as one is much smaller. But no matter what options I pick for it, it brings up an error. >_<

I know this is probably a terrible and confusing explanation, but I'm a huge newb to linux and especially fedora.If you want a better explanation please ask and I will try to deliver.

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Fedora Installation :: Options For Installing 14 From Live CD?

Feb 17, 2011

Been a while since I've been on here, but I was using Fedora 12 for the longest time and only recently started having problems. I kept getting errors and pop-up dialogs telling me to run yum-complete-transaction, which I tried as root many times. It would then give an error that it couldn't locate the repository and such. So, I looked through all my yum config files and changed a few things until I FINALLY got the command to do something, only it did all kinds of strange things as I was running low on EXT3 disk space and using old Windows' partition to store a lot of things on.

Now, I backed up all the /home directories and files as well as /root, just in case this didn't go smoothly and I still ran out of disk space. If I had the money, I'd buy a storage stick and just back up everything, but that's not an option at the moment. Now I have a crippled version of XP (pretty much useless from a trojan, even though I had McAfee AND Windows Defender running), and half of Fedora 12 with 2 different boot images! When I first did this, I used a 10G partition to install Fedora, which was plenty then. What's left of Win still resides on about 65G of space, but I have a lot of files there I want to keep. Fisrst thing I want to know is, should I look anywhere else on the Fedora disk to find files I may need, just in general? There's still a LITTLE space on the drive to back up stuff if I need to.

Second, while I still had enough to work with, I managed to download and burn a F14 Live CD, which is running now. I saw the option on the desktop to install it, and can get my config files and such from the backups if need be. I do NOT have a DVD burner, so if I have to I can use regular 700MB CDs, but only if they are available.The next thing I need to know is if I can install F14 from the web, without having to download any more ISOs, (again, assuming they are available). I know all my DSL settings so that's not a problem, I just need to find out if I can install it that way before I go clicking that icon. Anyone with experience with this would be helpful. I'm ready (MORE than ready) to go through with it, I just don't want to get "stuck" once I start the process. My download rate is around 200k/sec, so it's going to take some time no matter which way I (can) go.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Installing The Kubuntu Without Going Into Live Os First?

Jul 21, 2010

I'm trying to install kubuntu and it keeps going in to the live os. From there I know it can be installed but its not getting far enough. My guess is do to my vga card. I'd just like to install from outside the kernal like normal, can that be done?

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Fedora Installation :: Installing - Live Cd Goes To Dark Screen

Feb 24, 2009

I'm kind of new to linux, but even I shouldn't have this much trouble, because I've been reading faqs like crazy and tutorials, but I just don't understand what's going on. I'm installing Linux Mint on my old machine now and it's installing good, but I try to install Fedora 10 and I've been having problems. It works fine in VMware, but when I try to load it from a live CD to install into the drive, on the initizialize process it say's "failed ata something something", then it goes to a bar and then it goes to a black screen and it hangs there. I did 5 md5check sums on the same iso, I'm not sure what's going on?

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Ubuntu Installation :: Vista Only Booting Into Recovery Mode After Installing From A Live USB?

Sep 4, 2010

So I decided to try Ubuntu from a live USB drive 10.04 LTS on my Toshiba laptop as the windows Vista SP2 was running really slow. I liked it and clicked on the install icon. From there I set it for duel boot and off it went. The install worked great. I then downloaded the startup manager and changed the start up to be default of windows loader. Now when it boots into windows it goes to the windows recovery thing and won't start windows.

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Fedora Installation :: Installing On Samsung Q310 (reboots When Boot To Live CD Is Chosen)

Aug 1, 2009

I'm struggling a bit to install F11 on my laptop. When I put in the cd, i get to the menu. I elect to boot into the live cd, then my pc reboots and the menu comes up again...

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Fedora Installation :: Installing Live CD - Message - Cannot Find Root File System ?

Jan 30, 2010

I have a LiveCD (DVD with many linux versions on it) and no other software on my computer at the moment. The computer specs are as follow:

When I use the live cd I get the following message: Cannot find root file system

I have tried the suggestion along the lines of:

Then it either goes back to Bash or I get "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init"

Then my install just freezes there and I need to restart my computer.

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Debian Installation :: Debian Live Does Not Recognise .deb Archive!?

Nov 23, 2010

I'm running debian live off the cd to see if it fits my requirements. One of my pet peeves about ubuntu is the use of ctrl ctrl is hosed. the os does not seem to use it for anything, but no application can use it. This is the default for google desktop search, which is highly convenient. Seriously considering the move.I ran debian live and went to install the app. Message comes up archive type not recognised.

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Debian Installation :: Make USB Bootable By Using Debian 6 Live?

Feb 21, 2011

I have download Debian 6 Live from here. Now I am trying to boot it from USB. How I make a USB pen drive bootable from this iso file.

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Debian Installation :: Live USB With Persistence

Oct 19, 2014

I copy the debian-live-7.6.0-i386-standard.iso to the usb. Now i can live boot into the usb.

I also follow the guide "10.3.1 The persistence.conf file" to make /dev/sda2 my persistence partition. When it boot up and i add the parameter "persistence" it will works. But i want to know how to make it automatically boot with the parameter?

My guess is that i have to make my own live cd then copy to the usb again. If that is it, any tutorial how to make live cd from the live cd i already downloaded?

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Debian Installation :: Live USB Cannot Boot

Feb 19, 2015

Ok so I wanted to try out Debian, so I got the wheezy live image (gnome) via torrent. The problem is after I write the image to the USB, the computer cannot boot from it. It doesn't even display the USB in the boot menu. I've tried many ways of writing the image like dd, powerISO, UUI, imagewrite (not sure if that was the correct name) etc. Strangely enough, it works on a virtual machine via Plop Boot Manager, but not my actual PC.

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Debian Installation :: Live CD With 3.18 Kernel

Oct 14, 2015

My hardware isn't yet well supported on linux, so I'm looking for a live CD with 3.18 (3.19 came with a bad regression that still isn't fixed; and I need it to be a live CD so I can test before installing).

I noticed that the latest weekly build of stretch comes with 4.2. Can I find one with 3.18 somewhere?

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Debian :: Installation Failure Using Live CD

Mar 1, 2011

I've just tried to install Squeeze on my guest partition, using a magazine disk that offered a live CD version with installer, which I ran in text-based expert mode. The process was not a success.

1. The routine for installing grub claimed (hd0,2) was the same as /dev/hda2
2. Starting Debian's grub from the Fedora bootloader with chainloader failed
3. A conventional start revealed all sorts of problems, ending with "/bin/sh can't access tty"

I can't believe Debian could produce something like that! Has anyone here used their live CD as an installer? Tell me this mess is down to Linux Format magazine!

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Debian Installation :: 8.1 Live USB Drive With Persistence

Jun 18, 2015

I have searched but have not found a successful way of generating a USB drive with persistence using Debian 8 Live USB.

I have an 8 gig USB drive that I would use 4 gigs for the persistent drive.

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Debian Installation :: Live 8.3.0 IWLWIFI - KMOD?

Mar 18, 2016

Installed Debian Live 8.3.0 on my laptop .... To my surprise It did not find my Intel Pro Wifi adapter.......IWLWIFI

I needed to download the IWLWIFI package, however to my second surprise synaptic did not have it! So manually went into a repo, found it , and installed it with DPKG.

According to WIKI [URL] ....

"As the iwlwifi module is automatically loaded for supported devices, reinsert this module to access installed firmware:
# modprobe -r iwlwifi ; modprobe iwlwifi"

To my third surprise , modprobe command not found. After doing some investigation, I discovered that all these commands:

lsmod(8), rmmod(8), insmod(8), modinfo(8), modprobe(8), depmod(8)
have been removed and replaced by KMOD

KMOD is not a very friendly, it's kmod -- support is useless, so looked for it's manpage : [URL] ....

To my fourth surprise, there was not much support either:

KMOD(8) kmod KMOD(8)

NAME top

kmod - Program to manage Linux Kernel modules

SYNOPSIS top

kmod [OPTIONS...] [COMMAND] [COMMAND_OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION top

[Code] ....

HTML rendering created 2016-03-15 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface,

So far I am very disappointed with this latest DEBIAN 8.3.0 edition

--no driver included for a very common IWLWIFI (used by 13 adapters)
--utilities to add drivers removed ( lsmod(8), rmmod(8), insmod(8), modinfo(8), modprobe(8), depmod(8))
--the so called "replacement" KMOD is poorly documented and totally useless

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Debian Installation :: From The Live Cd - Cannot Decrypt The Partition

Jul 19, 2010

I'm trying to install debian on a encrypted partition with LUKS and LVM. I've found a good tutorial for ubuntu (here but it's in french). The idea is to create a sda1 partition for /boot and create a sda2 partition which is encrypted with luks ("cryptsetup -c aes-xts-plain -s 512 luksFormat /dev/sda2") and on this encrypted partition, I use LVM to divide it in several different partitions (root, swap, home,...).

I can do it all with the debian live cd but once it's done I need to install debian. The problem is that with the basic install cd (I use netinstall), I cannot decrypt the partition for the installation (or if I can how ?)And with the live cd, I didn't find any option to do that.

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Debian Installation :: Live Rescue CD Password?

Sep 5, 2010

I downloaded this squeeze live rescue iso and burned to CD.[URL].. When it boots, I get a text login screen prompting for username... Problem is, I cannot find anything on google that gives me a working u/p combo... I have tried a variety of these for username/passwords: live, rescue, user, linux, password.

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Debian Installation :: Cannot Install Squeeze Live DVD

Sep 15, 2010

A Linux user for about 10 years, distro hopping for half of them. Finally found peace with PCLinuxOS (great distro), and MintLinux. When Mint went over to Debian, I thought why not try the original, so here I am.Booted the dvd, checked everything was working well (excellently, actually), and started the install over an existing PCLinuxOS system (dual booting with XP). First time installed while inside the gnome system, from the desktop icon, second and subsequent times from the welcome screen after boot (only text modes were available).In all cases, everything goes fine until I partition and install the packages. Partitioning is no secret to me, unless there is a "Debian way" of doing it: went through "guided partitioning," and chose the existing PCLinuxOS partitions, 37 Gb for /, ext3 (tried ext4 later with same results), and 2 Gb for swap, both on sda (sda1 and sda5). This is a full hard-disk, just for Linux. The other disk is for XP (sdb).

Tried formatting existing partitions, erasing contents of disk, and keeping as is. In all cases, when partitioning is done, the system installation fires up and I see all packages being transferred (up to 100%). Then I have a pop-up window telling me to continue to package manager, which I do, but then I get a message saying that I am trying to install on an "unclean target," over an existing installation (even after fully erasing the disks). It asks whether to continue or not and, whatever I do, I'm taken back to system install again, and see the progress go up to 100% and the same question again.

If I go back to the install menu and ignore the message, jumping to installing grub, I get an error message saying that grub install has failed, and that's it. I can't progress further because of these error messages.If I ignore all and boot without the live dvd, I get a prompt and nothing else, and I can't even use XP. Basically, I'm stuck unless I install another distro again to have a working system.First searched this forum and Google to get answers to this problem, but couldn't find anything applicable to my case.

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Debian Installation :: Install From Squeeze Live CD / DVD

Jan 2, 2011

I burned an .iso of a recent Squeeze Live DVD - KDE edition. I was checking it out but I'm not sure it's reliable for installing.I was wondering if anyone has tried it or could comment.I noticed a few things that was a bit disconcerting.One, there were a lot of 'question marks' in the kickback menu.Is that normal?Two, when you (I) try to reboot the system or otherwise 'leave' the live state, it doesn't reboot properly.Some distributions will 'shut down' and then give you a prompt for taking out your CD or DVD and then there is some script or program that reboots the machine for you. But, the Debian Live DVD I used didn't do that. It's a recent one, dated Dec. 20.What happened is that it just looped back and re-started.There was no prompt or even much of a delay. I couldn't open the optical drive tray at any time.I had to cold restart the machine so I could take the DVD out.

I was disappointed since I thought it is a good project and a worthwhile venture to try and have a live media option for installing the later editions of Debian such as Squeeze or if they can keep up progress, whatever edition it's at.I am a bit hesitant to try this version for a true install so I am wondering what others say.I thought I should go for the 'desktop Squeeze/Testing AMD-64-KDE' CD ISO instead?There's no live media but I have tried the live DVD so it looked okay other than the two issues mentioned.

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Debian Installation :: Can't Build Live Usb-hdd With Libmotif4 / Get That?

Mar 1, 2011

I have squeeze and try to build live usb-hdd with libmotif4# $LB_PACKAGES: set packages to install code...

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Debian :: Create Own Live CD From An Existing Installation?

Jan 23, 2011

I have Lenny installed.Is it possible to create a Live CD/DVD with all settings from this installation to use it on the same Hardware?

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Debian Installation :: WiFi Card Not Being Detected In Live CD

May 15, 2015

I'm was trying to choose between GNOME and KDE for version 8. However both the live DVD's fail to pick up the Wifi card on my system. I am also unable to use certain basic commands such as ifconfig on the live CD. I am completely new to Linux and Debian (of course). Pardon me for the hand holding. This will be my first install of a Linux system.

What steps I can take to ensure that the Wifi card and the network card will be supported - hardware compatibility test maybe? Is there a way to try before installing? This will be a dualboot with Windows 8.1

Wifi card: Ralink RT3290 802.11bgn Wi-Fi Adapter
LAN card: Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller

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Debian Installation :: Screen Freezes During Live Boot From USB

Jun 8, 2015

I am attempting to get Debian+Mate running on my laptop, with no success. I have not yet used Linux, but I do wish to climb out of the Window, and the Live session seems ideal to get a feel for Debian before finally abandoning Windows.

I got the Debian+Mate ISO file from the Debian website, and created a bootable USB stick. (Note : I have done this several times, getting new ISOs, and using Unetbootin, Universal USB Installer, and Linux Live installer; the result is always the same.)

When I boot the USB drive, all appears good at first. I get to the Debian (or Mate?) screen which is a pale jade green with a white squiggle in the middle region, with a panel at the top; this shows at left three options - applications, places, and system; and at right the correct time, a sound symbol,the wifi symbol, and a battery indicator. At the left of the screen in vertical arrangement there are 4 icons labelled computer, users home, install Debian Sid, and trash. On the bottom panel, at left there is a "button" for "click to hide all windows & show desktop", and at right 4 squares for workspaces.

There are also (temporary) windows that inform me that the battery is no good (I run on mains), and that there is no wifi connection established. These windows disappear in a minute or so.

The cursor moves ok. The only actions that it creates are the information drop-down texts that tell me what the headings mean - e.g. no connections when I hover the cursor above the wifi connections symbol.

But whatever I attempt to do - selecting any of the options - nothing happens. Everything except the cursor appears to be dead.

The machine that I am using is an old laptop that I use as a second computer. It has a SIS Mirage 3 graphics engine, which I gather may be a problem. I also tried the same procedure with my fairly modern ASUS laptop (NVidia graphics) with exactly the same results; it seems that NVidia graphics may also be problematic, judging from some posts on the web. I have also tried Debian+Cinnamon, again with the same outcome.

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Debian Installation :: How To Boot Live ISO USB In UEFI Mode

Feb 15, 2016

As you probably know Debian LIVE ISOs is not (U)EFI bootable since there is no EFI bootloader on them. I need to boot usb for uefi mode...

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Debian Installation :: Creating A Live USB (Not Booting On EeePc)

Apr 8, 2016

I'm trying to rebuild an old laptop, EeePc 1001PX and I've issues to boot on the usb on it.

I've followed [URL] .... and the only way I manage to make a usb key that will boot is by hd-media/boot.img.gz:

Code: Select all# zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdb
# mount /dev/sdb /media/usb
# cp /tmp/debian-8.4.0-i386-CD-1.iso /media/usb
# sync
# umount /media/usb

I managed to install Debian using this technique to build the usb key.

However I'm having an issue on the laptop with the wifi card (Atheros AR9285) and after a night trying to make it work I'd like to check if I'd would have the same issue Ubuntu.

So I've been desperately trying to make a bootable usb key with Ubuntu on it.... It boots on my laptop but not on this EeePc...

I've tried:

Code: Select allcat /tmp/myimage.iso > /dev/sdb
Code: Select alldd if=/tmp/myimage.iso of=/dev/sdb && sync

I've installed multibootusb [URL] ... and liveUsb install [URL] .... which doesn't work on my EeePc...

Wh only this technique of using is hd-media/boot.img.gz is working on that laptop?

I'd like to try to install Ubuntu via grub using a partition [URL] .... but I need to create 2 partitions and so to boot on a external system.

I've downloaded gparted-live-0.25.0-3-i686.iso but like with Ubuntu I don't manage to create a bootable USB key for this crappy EeePc.

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Feb 7, 2010

Can you install a live cd onto hard drive? I'm in a live environment now and don't see an install option.

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