I've been using Ubuntu since 8.04 and I'm getting tired of it. Every time I update to the latest version, even if I wait awhile, something always breaks. I want an OS that I can update without having to worry about something breaking and I hear that Debian is great for that. I'll be installing it in a few hours when I get back from Iron Man 2. I just created this thread because I know I'm going to have questions. Don't worry, I'll try to solve any problems I come across myself before asking here. I'll be installing Debian Stable because I figure that'll be good enough for me.
Since the upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze on my Notebook Toshiba Satellite Pro U200 with Intel Pro/Wireless 3945 ABG I have wireless connection problems.The connection breaks time to time and sometimes cannot connect automaticaly after restart. BTW I didn't change anything on the wireless or network configurations on the notebook and on the wiereless router.
I have a Insprion 14R (N4010) and when I hibernate it will usually restore without a problem, but maybe 15% of the time it will reboot while loading. I would like to figure why, since I'd rather not lose anything... My swap space is 5.9GB, I have 4GB RAM (video uses 1gb, so I have 3gb usable)
This problem of mounting usb-sticks has cropped up after installing debian-5.0.4 anew. Whenever I am attaching the usb the lower panel shows JetFlash TS2GJFV30 (not mounted). When I am clicking on 'Mount device' a red warning sign is appering telling 'Error'. If I run terminal command 'mount /dev/disk' then error message is 'mount: can't find /dev/disk in /etc/ or /etc/mtab'.
i am trying to get starting installing debian on my virtual server what is supported for IA64 and i have try'd this few different version(se bellow) and the img fail isin't boting?
debian-503-ia64-businesscard(notice diffrent version tryed to) debian-503-ia64-CD-1(notice diffrent version tryed to) debian-503-ia64-netinst(notice diffrent version tryed to)
I have used before virutal server and booted successfully a img file and installed a operating system sow what is wrong?
Is there stability advantages to installing the mint-meta-debian package from the repo below??? I have read that LMDE is safer than running Testing because there is less chance for breakage with LMDE. Less risky overall. Is that true?
# Linux Mint Debian Edition (I get Firefox from here) # get the mint-keyring from the repo deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
I have been trying to install a command line Debian Squeeze system on n Eee PC 701., but have run into a number of problems:
1) All install info I can find assumes that the person wants to install a GUI system of some sort. 2) The Eee PC has a unique 2 MB. partition that needs to be preserved, so no guided install. 3) The Eee PC has an SSD instead of an HD. Most postings I have seen recommend an install without a swap partition, but the install (both live and text) seems to choke and despite a fresh formatting of the existing partition, claims to be overwriting existing files. 4) I can understand from the wiki that the Eee PC wireless driver (Atheros) should be included in Squeeze, but when the wireless connection and password is added, the installer claims that the password is not correct, despite me having checked it a number of times.
I hope someone can help me out. I just want to use the Eee PC for low resource stuff done on the cli like using a text based web browser to access the net through a wireless router and to hook it up to an external USB HD and to my stereo, to play my music collection.
I have installed Windows 7 on my laptop . Now, it directly boot from Windows 7 . I think the MBR overwrote my grub . I have found two methods by google , but still does work . 1: boot from debian install CD, Alt +F2 switch to the console. "grub " "root (hd0,0)" "setup (hd0,0)". 2:boot from CD, mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt ; chroot /mnt ; grub-install /dev/sda.
I installed Debian Squeeze with no issues. I went to install latest Nvidia driver as done previously with Lenny. Used instructions that worked on lenny from "the trooper" [url]
Downloaded th latest driver for my GeForce 7300 GS vidio card, driver package NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.12.run
Used "method # 2 as described in HOW TO,as it worked perfectly in the past on Lenny. Only syntax I changed was instead of gdm I typed gdm3 as it appears that is the new name for gnome in Squeeze.
Did as folows:
Now the trouble showed up, Unfortunatly I can only go off my memory. A question was asked stating that something did not match, it needed a 3 and the driver had a 4 version or somethng of this sort. then it asked if I new what I was doing (and I lied) and selected yes. And whammo, it didn't work. (This question was asked when i did in Lenny and it is working perfectly still on that system). I now can not boot to GUI, I notice when system boots it starts in "S" mode although I select normal boot from grub2.
Not too bad if I got to reinstall as little is on the system. I just want to know what I am missing on the instalation deal or should I be going about this difrently with Squeeze.
I have downloaded Debian/PowerPC_lenny from http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst. The netinst CD or the minimal CD for some reason doesn't boot. When I put it in the CD-ROM it doesn't begin whatever it has to do. Do I need to do anything? I restart my iBook G4 (1.33 GHz PowerPC G4) several times and held the "c" button (for CD-ROM) but nothing has happened. I wonder if someone can help me begin the installation process.
FYI, I have partitioned my hard drive into two volumes. I would like to install Debian in one of them. I *do not* want my Mac OS X to get disappeared in the Debian installation process. So please help me if you would as to how I can (1) boot Debian minimal CD and (2) install Debian on one of the two volumes I have on my iBook.
I have a live cd of debian for powerpc and I am trying to install it on my old eMac that runs Mac OSX version 10.4. So how do I boot from the cd with or without using open firmware?
Now that Etch is on archive.debian.org - how do I get the Debian installer to install it (via. net)?Before everyone shouts "upgrade to Lenny" - I need Etch for a reason.Simply putting archive.debian.org as the install mirror doesn't work either.
so a friend of mine that really liked the Debian Linux I had, had me install it it on his hard drive. I stupidly believed him when he said that he wasn't going to go back to windows, but now he wants to. This was almost a year ago and now that his entire hard drive is formatted to linux (with more than 40 gigs in programs and files) I was wondering if I could install windows XP on the second hard drive (currently not being used) then re-run grub from an install CD to recognize both the WIndows and Linux installations.
I was wondering. Up till now whenever I installed Linux I've either dual booted with Windows off 1 HDD, or installed straight Linux by itself. However, I recently purchased a second HDD for my computer, and was wondering how I could go about installing Debian on the second drive without messing with the windows drive? Right now I have Windows 7 installed on my 1TB drive, and would like to try and install Debian on my second (750GB) drive. Would it be possible to install Debian on the second drive, install grub on that drive's MBR so I could choose between Debian and Win7 without touching the MBR on the 1TB Windows drive?
I'm paranoid about messing up my Seven installation, but really want to be able to load into Debian as well.
After installing Debian Testing from the business card ISO via unetbootin, without a DE or WM, I log into root and get an error. The error is INIT: ID "co" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. I see the "co" line in /etc/inittab but I don't know what to do. How do I fix this error?
I guess this might sound strange, but, I want to be asked all the time for either my user password or root password. I have searched high and low and all I can find is people wanting to disable asking for password. My guess is a majority of those users are ex-Windows users. I prefer to be asked as I feel it an added security tool. how to enable the system to ask for the user/root password everytime?
I have only one OS ( Debian 'Squeeze' 6.0.1 ) installed on this system. I observe a time lag which gradually grows. I was asked to install ntpd to prevent this from happening in the future and I did install it which seemed to work for a few days but now I observe the lag again. Just to note, I notice it only when I hibernate my system.
when im trying login in my web ftp with correct pass and username its automaticly refresh the page. I have instaled easy-wi for i can make servers, but ftp dont works. Second problem is cronjobs. i dont know how to enabkle for this panel.
I don't think it is, as the scenario is slightly weird, and the chances of something going wrong probably too high to make it appealing, but since I have the eternal noob complex I decided to ask. So this is the situation. I had debian in a hdd on a laptop, removed the hdd, put a new one, installed windows (I didn't want, but I had to) and left the space of the old hdd + 20GB to put debian again.
I want my debian back, but I don't want to cause any problem with the windows installation because it can be extremely painful to go through it again. I have my old debian in a hdd and will soon get a hdd case to connect it with usb, that would let me even to boot using the usb. So far I thought of having a list of installed packages in the old debian, reinstall them all, copy the home folders and some configuration files, like cups and some stuff, maybe the whole /etc (I'd have to check the contents of /etc I don't know at this moment if something should be kept in the new installation)
When I try to open two times Iceweasel I get this:Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Iceweasel process, or restart your system.I am very suprprised, because in Windows xp I can open mozilla firefox 2,3 or more times.
Imagine i want to power off my "Lenny" at exactly 16:00 everiday. no mather what I suppose i showld write a script with the shutdown command and add it to the /etc/init.d . but i will listen to your tips first.
I just installed Debian6-squeezie and upgraded to wheeny, that went fine for itself But now i discover that Debian INSIST in changing my BIOSCLOCKI realy dont like that. Its MY computer and I dicide MY SELF if i 'follow' winter versus summer time commercial brain-f#ck.
I'm not sure what the problem is but any browser i have crashes after some time of use, I've tolerated it for some time but its just too much of crashing, I have installed opera and chrome and both of them crash too..
I have debian jessie 8.8.1 Oscam and a phoenix card reader running on a tower pc. Everything works on reboot but when i leave it running then when i wake up in the morning the card reader has stopped working and does not show up in lsusb. The only way to get it working again is to reboot then it stops after x amount of time and the same problem.
The in build cipher algorithms that are in the kernel are not critically secured, the best, I think, supports 384 bit encryption.
So I was looking forward towards stuff like DSA or very preferably OTP cipher with like... 8192 bit encryption using DM, I know it sounds insane, but so is the data. I want it to be uncrackable for the fastest supercomputer combined till 2070.
I would like to use one time passwords with ssh.I know there is the RC Devs openotp library but I have found very little information on the web about how to use this with ssh or even if that is possible.
I have two mice, both are three button (left, right and middle) with scroll, one PS/2 and one wireless. The wireless is working properly and the PS/2 is not. The right button, the middle button and the scroll do not work.# X -configure has detected only one, which one? Do i need to put another Section Mouse1 for the second mouse? Why do i have on the Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" so many buttons? From what i searched it should have been Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (that's for the scroll button, up and down). Running Squeeze stable.
