My knowledge & even potential are not very good, to be honest. I have Debian running as a server at home. I rent a dedicated server (wicked cheap) for backup & web experimenting (it too runs Debian). Having said that, I am trying to install Debian on a different system which I hope to be my new home server.
It is a Dell Inspiron 2020 AIO. I just have the motherboard & internal components. I have no LCD connector or screen. It has no video-out capability (no VGA/DVI/DP/etc). Obviously, I can not see anything when it boots. It has two SATA ports on the motherboard. I do not know if it supports booting over USB (I assume it does). PXE, I do not know.
Is there a project somewhere that offers ISOs (or SIMPLE scripts/configs/etc to make your own). I would love an automagic ISO that will do:
1. base/headless installation of Debian x64
2. any repository (Georgia Tech would be great)
3. Automatic partitioning (one for / and one for Swap, at 2x RAM (8GB partition))
4. root/toor preconfigured
5. Open-ssh, so that I can actually finally "see" what I am doing.
Is there a mouse-jockey idiot way that I can do this without being able to see anything?
I have found info on FAI & various install wrappers. They are immensely complicated to someone like me. I was wondering if there exists a simple solution. Perhaps a project I can not find through websearching?
It does not have to be Debian. I am just more accustomed to Debian. I have played with Slackware, Arch, Centos, Red Hat, Fedora, Suse, TinyCoreLinux, PuppyOS, DSL, Knoppix, FreeBSD, NetBSD, PC-BSD, OpenBSD, and more.
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I would like to use a hibernate function on my Debian 7.7 OS.
There is a debian tutorial about this - but I'm not an experienced system administrator so it's a bit difficult to understand.https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation/...Swap_Partition
I have finally decided to create a swap file rather than a swap partition for the sake of simplicity.
I have 2gb RAM and am a normal user - so I think I can set the 'swappiness' to low so that the swap file is used mainly for hibernation.
Can anyone please point me to somewhere where I can install the hibernate function onto a debian/ubuntu distro?
Also, I would've thought that a dpkg could have been written which simplifies this process with the use of a GUI.
In fact, additional functions such as screensaver and wallpaper changer would make the dpkg very useful.
However, any help on creating hibernation on my OS would be really great.
Thank you.
Hi
I am very suprised! I previously had a Windows 7 desktop, dual boot with Windows Server 2012 R2. I didn't care much about 2012 R2, so I went with a Debian server on another computer.
I wanted to triple boot my computer, so I looked at my BIOS to see if my computer has UEFI support, but it doesnt, so I am not able to boot to GPT. One decision lead to another, and I decided not to install Hackintosh. As part of this process, I had converted it to GPT, and then back to MBR when installing Windows 8.1 Pro. Everything went well.
When I went to install Debian 7, it was not recognizing anything on that drive. I found out it was a backup GUID partition table left over. I used fixparts found on rodsbooks.com, and I fixed the disk partition table.
Now this is where things get weird. Before installing, I created a primary partition for /, and an extended partition with 5 logical partitions inside it. I installed Debian 7 from a live install DVD, and I manually created the partitions. I created a 4GB /, 16GB /usr, 4GB /var, and 64GB /home. Then I left a bunch of free space (~145GB) and then 16GB swap space. (I have 8GB ram, and I plan to hibernate sometimes).
After a successful installation, installation of packages, reboots, and frustration with PCI card problems, I rebooted to Windows 8.1.
Upon opening diskpart gui, I was greeted with the picture attached.
WHAT IS GOING ON?
I previously installed kdenlive in previous Debian versions with the suggested command:
apt-get install kdenlive frei0r-plugins dvgrab recordmydesktop dvdauthor genisoimage
but it gives error messages in debian 8 saying packages not available
maybe my sources.list is wrong?
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20150425-12:54]/ jessie contrib main
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org jessie main
# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
# A network mirror was not selected during install. The following entries
# are provided as examples, but you should amend them as appropriate
# for your mirror of choice.
#
# deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib
# deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib
What should I do?
I'm running kali linux. I'm having troubles installing pretty much anything, because when I add any ppa using the add-apt-repository command, I get an error message. I'll use simple screen recorder as an example
add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.EQM7zzCyye --trustdb-name /etc/apt//trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-jessie-automatic.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-jessie-security-automatic.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-jessie-stable.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-squeeze-automatic.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-squeeze-stable.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-wheezy-automatic.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-wheezy-stable.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//kali-archive-keyring.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com
Can someone please tell me what is going on? I have never been able to add a ppa before using kali linux.
Hi all,
This is my /etc/apt/sources.list of jessie, what's wrong as I am getting the following error output .
error :-
Code:
Err http://http.debian.net jesssie/main Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 54.192.190.154 80]
Err http://http.debian.net jesssie/contrib Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 54.192.190.154 80]
Err http://http.debian.net jesssie/non-free Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 54.192.190.154 80]
Fetched 7,819 B in 25s (307 B/s)
W: The repository 'http://http.debian.net jesssie Release' does not have a Release file. This is deprecated, please contact the owner of the repository.
W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jesssie/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 54.192.190.154 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jesssie/contrib/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 54.192.190.154 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jesssie/non-free/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 54.192.190.154 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
This is my /etc/apt/sources.list :-
Code:
[$] cat /etc/apt/sources.list [2:23:45]
#### testing #########
deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian jesssie main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
# testing-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
#deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-updates main contrib non-free
Now I am guessing one or more of the entries above are wrong, as probably all of testing-updates would probably come into play once jessie is released, right ?
This was generated via http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ for lack of better places to generate sources.list from.
Hello, my video card "Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450/6350]"
create something which can be seen with dmesg "drm: registered panic notifier".
Should I install the fglrx driver instead of keeping the open source radeon as per current install?
I have antix which is a debian wheezy based system https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary# ... 2Wheezy.22
Thanks for any advice before I do it.
Hi all,
I'm once more trying my hand at Linux, but it's been so long that I've forgotten everything I learned last time and going back in again as a total newbie.
I tried out SteamOS first, but found it much too clunky for my tastes and, despite being based on Debian, seemed to have had a lot of functionality removed and inability to install some packages even after adding in Debian repos to the sources.list, so I ended up switching to vanilla 64-bit Debian 8 using KDE as my desktop. At first things were going good, managed to install the AMD Graphics Drivers and get Steam itself installed, along with downloading/installing a few games.
I then downloaded a game from gog.com but was getting an error message, which on looking it up appeared to be due to my only having 64-bit libraries for my graphics drivers and no 32-bit ones. I did some more Googling, ran some commands and did some apt-get installs (though sadly I can't recall exactly what they were) and eventually, the game launched fine and all appeared well.
The next time I started up my laptop though, Debian just boots straight to a full screen command line, not the desktop GUI that I want, and I have absolutely no idea how to either switch back to the GUI, or make it the default again. I'm not sure if I've somehow removed KDE, the xserver (I think?), somehow disabled one of them or just changed the startup preferences.
I'd really rather not have to reinstall the whole system again, so any suggestions will be very much appreciated!
I'm trying to install Debian 7.8 on my eMac G4 (700mhz, 640 Mb RAM). I've tried multiple methods but I keep running into problems one way or another. Since my eMac only has a Sony CD-RW drive and a busted Ethernet port I can't install from a DVD nor a netinstall CD which would be the easiest options unfortunately. First I tried using the multiple CD option, which seemed promising at first; until I had to swap to the next disk during "configure the package manager". it won't eject the CD when I use the eject key on my keyboard (imac g3 pro keyboard so I go back to the main menu and select the "eject a CD from the drive" option at the near bottom then things seem to get clustered. When I tried inserting the next disk, nothing else will install. It keeps telling me I need disk 1 again through every step. Then at the end, it tells me the installation is complete before I even install a desktop environment from the final CD. Then I just end up booting into garbled text and errors.
After all of that nonsense, I tried making a bootable USB from the DVD ISO with the OS X terminal. This method usually works with just about anything I've done before. However for some reason Debian apparently simply refuses to boot. As I tried selecting it on the boot menu on the start up, it gives me a black screen then goes straight back to the boot screen with disordered graphics. When I tried booting it from open firmware, it goes to the first screen, then when I hit enter to actually boot to the installer, nothing but errors. Finally I tried booting it straight from the ISO file on the hard drive, that method didn't even work at all.
Could someone point out what I'm doing wrong if possible or perhaps recommend me a different option?
Dear Linux magicians
When I tried to partition my hard drive for installing Debian Wheezy, I get the error:
For unknown reason it is not possible to change the size of my partition. Check /var/log/syslog or look at he fourth virtual console (VT4)
Obviously I have no idea what this all means, clearly I'am a beginner. Excuse me for my bad English, I'm not a native or regular speaker. I have to install Debian for school...
Kind regards
ITstudent
I tried to install Debian 8 and 7 but I get error message at partitioning stage:
"Failed to create a file system
The ext4 file system creation in partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) failed."
After that I couldn't advance further.
I booted from a live Debian and the HardDisk actually shows there with some older files on it.
I tried to install even Windows but from the start it shows the computer doesn't have a Hard Disk Drive so the installation stops right at the start.
Any ideas what is wrong and is there any fix?