Debian Installation :: Possible To Have Paranoid Install
Dec 10, 2013
i was wondering if it is possible so have a paranoid install in Debian.To like remove boot up sequences that can compromise security, have an encrypted LVM with key and boot on an encrypted usb stick, really good firewall settings and selinux settings. I just want to turn my laptop into a bunker. Till now i have had encrypted LVM with encrypted files in it, i shred everything, i use tor (was trying I2P earlier but didn't really work), use gpg an such. I have no decent firewall because i don't know much about it and no selinux. how to create a as secure as possible system?
I have installed my linux server on the Internet witout a router/firewall between. To secure it I used iptables and it works fine. The problem is that I'am not feeling secure enough with only iptables. Is there anything else that I can install to make my server more secure and get rid of my paranoid feelings?
I have been learning Debian by using a virtual machine. After fine-tuning my installation procedure, I decided to copy that installation to my physical system. The hard drive already has another Linux based system installed. I plan to dual boot.After copying files I updated fstab and menu.lst.The partition scheme between the virtual and physical environments are similar, but the partitions are not mapped exactly the same.Thus the Debian system on the physical hard drive fails to boot simply because the initrd is created for the root partition location on the virtual machine. The initrd created in the virtual machine is looking for the root file system on /dev/hda1 whereas on my physical drive the new location is /dev/sda7.How can I rebuild the initrd on the physical system? I started to use the installation DVD in rescue mode, but I did not get too far.
I down loaded Debian 5.0.4 and burned it to CD (several times I might add till it was right) and now the computer I'm putting it on wont acknowledge it as a boot disk and load. It does not have a problem with my windows cd, which has a crack and the start of all my problems, But not the Debian CD-1 disk. what now? The computer is an IBM thinkpad a22p. Everything works as far as I can tell. But I was going to reinstall Windows and failed in that because of a small crack on the edge of the disk that stopped the install and any hope of accessing the file on the laptop. Microsoft does not support windows xp any longer, you must buy windows 7, but the ibm will not run it due to processor speed and ram limitations. But it will run linux and I'm willing to try it just to get out of microsoft control.
Idon't know what else to do. This is the link to where I downloaded the software ( [URL] ). The others five that i downloaded were on the same page that I got this one. Are there bad files here? Is there a missing file in the disc?
I'm somewhat familiar with Ubuntu (familiar but not sharp!) but have never tried Debian OS until now. I've installed Debian 5 64bit as a guest on a Mac host. I'm impressed how smooth the install went; even installing VB Guest Additions went smoothly. But, I get a "Your system had a kernel failure" error after booting. I have searched the forum & didn't find this error. Everything seems to work okay but is there an update that isn't showing in the Update Manager? Could this have something to do with VirtualBox 3.1.4?
I am installing debian onto my external usb hdd, through sun virtual box. The problem is that every time i reboot my hdd the instalation disappears and i need to go through it all again, am i doing something wrong ? or is it not meant to be on an external hdd ?
After installing debian 5.0.4 basic from first dvd, I extracted all other dvd images to hard disk and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list point to all these directories. after refreshing using synaptic package manager, I got list of all 20,000+ packages, and did a "apt-get -y install ......(all 20,000 names)". It failed due to some conflicts. So I used "--force-yes -f " option as well.
It went on for nearly two days to install everything. (in between due to power failure, something was done half way and was able to login to KDE boot option and see lots of software installed.) After complete install - it shows a startup screen of Debian EDu - but fails to boot up.
Is there a way to install all softwares + all XWindow systems simultaneously?
I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate 7600 on my HP500 Laptop, but I want to try other linux distro such as Debian. I have installed Debian 5.0.3 with VMware Workstation 7.0.1 on my machine instead of really installed it. Details is as follows: 1.Download vmware 7.0.1 and Debian Lenny 5.0.3 seperately.
2.Host Win 7 Ultimate 7600: configure the local connection to "internet connection share",choose "VMware Network Adapter VMnet1" Guest Debian 5.0.3: NAT + DHCP 3. Configurate /etc/apt/source.lists Add these lines on /etc/apt/sources.list:
I have a question: I'd like to install Debian next to Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop. I've been searching on the web but I can't figure out what to download and what to install. My laptop is an Acer Aspire 1355LC that runs on an AMD Athlon XP processor. Also when I install Debian, will it recognise my Linksys WUSB 54 wireless device? (I've read somewhere that it could be that WLAN connections aren't supported with the net instal Cd) I know there's a lot that I'm asking, but I really want to learn more about Debian.
I downloaded and mounted debian-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso on my work machine's VirtualBox v5.0.12 to check out Debian stable/Jessie's installer and clean installation in case I need to do it soon. I like the new installer compared to 11/24/2011 on my old desktop machine. It is much nicer, fancier with its advanced options, etc.
However, I ran into issues with its "Select and Install" part when I selected desktop managers (e.g., KDE and Gnome) and continued. It failed as shown in [URL] .... images. Why? I tried again from scratch and same thing. If I don't select any and just select non-GUI stuff (e.g, SSH and standard system utilities), then it works but I want the pretty GUI stuff.
When I boot into Debian 8, I pull up a terminal and as root enter "apt-get install xfce4"... It then tries to install but asks for the install DVD. When I insert the USB it will not install from it. It doesn't even acknowledge that it was inserted. It is only looking for a DVD drive. How can I make it pull the files from the usb installer stick?
I down loaded Lenny(5.0.3) all 6 DVDs. However after installing the base the computer rebooted and I am not sure how to install all the other DVDs. I want s "Sumo" install with everything, particularly - Emacs, GCC, Skype, Qt and all the tools for Software development including the latest GCC libraries.
I haven't used Debian in 1 year or so and would like to know if there is any possible way to do a fresh installation of Debian Lenny or Squeeze (either or) and not install Exim? I get to the package selection section of the Debian Installer and I de-select "Desktop Environment" & "Standard System" so nothing is selected and it still be default installs Exim. Is there a way to omit this from the install?
I am helping my pal to get into Debian (yes first timer).He is running W7 on a 500G SATA HDD and he has another 250G SATA HDD that he wants Debian to go to.Will Debian install grub on the master bootloader even if the installation is going on a separate hard drive?I have dual boot before but on the same hard drive.
I want to install a new Debian 5.0.6. But I wanna know, is it possible to install Debian Lenny with CD-1 only??Is there any error will happen when I install Debian with CD-1 only??Or, do I need CD-2 for Debian installation?
I've just installed Debian 7 Netinst on an old laptop. It's using one of those PCMCIA(?) wireless NIC card things. It recognised it during the install, asked me for some driver files which it found on my mobile phone when I connected it to the laptop's USB Went through the whole install process without any problems and the only changes to default I made was to deselect "Debian Desktop..." and selected "SSH Server". Rebooted, get a command prompt and login OK .... but it's not picked up the network thingy. Twice I've done this. Why is it losing the networking...
There is a glitch in my install. It doesn't find the NIC first time so I click "Back" and it takes me to the installer menu. There I choose "Detect Network Hardware" and OK. It finds the card, installs the drivers from my phone and prompts me for the WAP's SSID. I select "Back" again, choose "Detect Network Hardware" again and it goes OK and finds 3 WAPs in range. All goes well after that. I don't see how that can mess it up though I'm going to do it all again but this time select the "Debian Desktop" option and let you know if that changes things.
I'm having to be careful with the partitioner ... If I allowed it to install to the "Largest contiguous..." it would end up on my mobile phone as the laptop has a 10Gb drive and the phone 32Gb .
I have an amd64 system and am attempting to install 7.8. I have two 4TB hard drives, and would like them in this configuration:
[*]md0: RAID-1 root [*]md1: RAID-1 data filesystem (which will be about 3.9TB)
The drives have GPT.The debian installer worked fine until it was time to install grub, and then it said grub could not be installed (fatal error).I'm wondering if I need to create a small /boot partition (non-RAID)? Other than swap, the physical partitions supporting md0 and md1 are the only ones I created. fdisk shows the typical 1MB partition I see on GPT disks, though I'm not all that GPT-savvy.
Currently this PC has Ubuntu installed on it and it barely boots from HDD but crashes at logon, and just loops back to the boot device select screen when CD is selected.
I'm wondering if there is anyway to install a version of Debian on the G5 using my windows 7 tower PC and a spare SATA HDD?
Specs: CPU : 2x PowerPC 970fx 2.0GHz (x64) RAM : 2GB DDR GPU : GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB
I just installed debian Jessie (8) and find that the system cannot resolve URLs. Checking with the "hosts" command confirms this. I am connected to a comcast network in my house. I have looked over some of the documentation and it seems like there are several conflicting ways of setting up the resolver. It is not clear if the install process did this for me. I am assuming that DHCP was installed as the computer had no problem defining IPs for its wlan0 and eth0 ports and I can telnet in from and in-network PC. I have a few questions :
1) I see /sbin/dhclient/,,,,, running so i assume this is the DHCP deamon in use? 2) Before I dig too deep I wonder if an internal firewall is involved. Is there a command to shut it down temporarily? 3) what would I look for to determine if a resolver was installed and which one?
I see from my windows machine an apparent comcast DNS server but I don't believe I can code it into resolv.conf on debian as the OS now overwrites this(I already tried and failed!).
Earlier , centos 6.6 & kvm was installed & over it debian 7.6 was installed & it was running fine.
Due to some issue we had to format the server , now we are able to install centos 6.6 & kvm but not debian 7.6. We are installing via media, from where can i download debian 7.6 iso.
we are installing it on hp dl 360 g9 server, we are able to format the disk inside the kvm & after when it start copy the operating system it throws error & error is Installation Setup failed, try run the failing item from the menu, I have tried the following
1. Replace the media & checked same error 2. Realter the partion & checked same error 3. Tried to install with guided partion & checked same error.
Used unetbootin to create bootable usb w/ debian-503-i386-netinst.iso image. It boots into the installer fine, but fails at the "Detect and mount CD-ROM" step. There is no CD-Rom in this box. What is the point of a USB install if it can't complete without finding a CD-Rom?
I was wondering if a lot of people advise to install Grub in the MBR but that means the last distro installed will control the booting and that distro's grub will become the bootloader? I am finding it really difficult and complicated if you don't want that situation and want to control which distro's grub does the booting. Grub2 works differently than Grub Legacy but if you use Grub Legacy and the menu.lst, I never know what entry to use when you are adding them. I have some idea but when I edit a grub entry for another distro, it never boots properly because the content I have there isn't correct.
I just want to install debian on mine laptop. here is mine system configrationhttp://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:8FAQGq76ttsJ:www.hclinfosystems.com/9100%2520BT.pdf+hcl+lx+infiniti+powerlite+9100+bt&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in&client=firefox-a so i want to download the iso image which one i have to download and write.
I have a complete set of the Debian 5.0.4 DVD ISOs in an NTFS partition on a drive in an external case with a USB connector. Can I boot the Debian installer on DVD 1 and then plug in the external drive and tell it to extract the files from the ISOs there? Or should the eternal drive be connected and running when installer boots?
Using a Realtek 8111/8168b Revision 1 NIC on a desktop comp, it's being detected by Lenny, Squeeze, and Gentoo (09/02/2010) installers (all are AMD64 distro's being run on a dual core intel processor), the r8169 driver is being loaded automatically on all of them. However, at the moment the NIC is detected during the net-installs, it goes dead until power has been cut. The switch doesn't register it as being active, nor do any of the activity lights on the motherboard register it as being active.In Gentoo's setup I can run an ifconfig and see the NIC as eth0 as it should be, I can ping the loopback as well as a statically assigned IP address. However pinging anything else in the LAN results in timeouts, and anything outside of the LAN results in hosts not found.
