How To Create Hibernation Function On Debian

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?

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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Thanks for any help

sudo apt-get remove dropbox give me this

sudo apt-get remove dropbox
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
cliffm@debian:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up nautilus-dropbox (1.4.0-3) ...

Dropbox is the easiest way to share and store your files online. Want to learn more? Head to http://www.dropbox.com/

Downloading Dropbox... 100

the terminal is not released.
How else can I get a clean uninstall of dropbox?

cliffm@debian:~$ sudo apt-get remove dropbox
[sudo] password for cliffm:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
cliffm@debian:~$ top

top - 10:51:47 up 53 min, 3 users, load average: 1.06, 1.21, 1.25
Tasks: 149 total, 2 running, 147 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 46.5 us, 4.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 49.3 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 1930056 total, 1431412 used, 498644 free, 41064 buffers
KiB Swap: 3929084 total, 0 used, 3929084 free, 593656 cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4142 root 20 0 115m 73m 4032 R 100.0 3.9 39:44.15 dropbox
644 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:01.02 usb-storage
4076 cliffm 20 0 376m 17m 10m S 0.3 0.9 0:03.69 gnome-terminal
4145 cliffm 20 0 1654m 478m 47m S 0.3 25.4 4:12.97 firefox
4464 cliffm 20 0 23172 1600 1140 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.04 top
1 root 20 0 10648 800 668 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.67 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.15 ksoftirqd/0
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.43 kworker/0:0
6 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/0
7 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
8 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 migration/1
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.59 kworker/1:0
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.28 ksoftirqd/1
12 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 watchdog/1
13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset
14 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
cliffm@debian:~$ kill 4142
bash: kill: (4142) - Operation not permitted
cliffm@debian:~$ sudo kill 4142
cliffm@debian:~$ top

top - 10:52:53 up 54 min, 3 users, load average: 0.87, 1.13, 1.22
Tasks: 145 total, 1 running, 144 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1.0 us, 0.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 98.7 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 1930056 total, 1356856 used, 573200 free, 41172 buffers
KiB Swap: 3929084 total, 0 used, 3929084 free, 593712 cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3733 cliffm 20 0 947m 100m 41m S 0.7 5.3 0:39.55 gnome-shell
4076 cliffm 20 0 376m 17m 10m S 0.7 0.9 0:04.02 gnome-terminal
4145 cliffm 20 0 1655m 481m 47m S 0.7 25.5 4:13.72 firefox
4468 cliffm 20 0 23172 1596 1144 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.04 top
644 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:01.04 usb-storage
2842 root 20 0 132m 18m 6368 S 0.3 1.0 0:36.38 Xorg
1 root 20 0 10648 800 668 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.67 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.15 ksoftirqd/0
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.44 kworker/0:0
6 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/0
7 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
8 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 migration/1
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.59 kworker/1:0
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.29 ksoftirqd/1
12 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 watchdog/1
13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset
cliffm@debian:~$

I just read that in 2013 nasa stopped using windows and moved to linux quoting the need for a more stable ssystem with better security. They also said that they were using debian.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...ed-reliability

They also use lenova thinkpads for the same reasons.

My question is, what is the functionality difference with debian? Is it more stable than other distributions? If ubuntu is Debian based, what is the difference?

I'm currently using ubuntu studio Distro and very happy with it but I'm very interested in the reasons why nasa use Debian.

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.

Hello, I want to deploy some AD-like login and user management. All devices in network use Linux (Debian, 5-10 workstations).
The first idea is to use Samba4 because everyone is talking about how it is AD-compliant, but I think it's not needed, because there's no windows workstations, and it gives additional windows-specific tools and protocols like netbios, etc.

Next thought is, that FreeIPA is good idea, but I don't see it in Debian's repos (only sid).
I could try to install it from sid, but I'm afraid it's not stable and production ready. I see it stable only in RedHat family (centos/fedora).
What is more, freeipa-client is not even in jessie's repo. I heard about sssd as a client in Debian for FreeIPA.

The last idea is to use OpenLDAP. I'm sure it's supported by Debian very well, but I'm afraid of lack of integration with other tools like kerberos, etc. I've got ntp, dns, dhcp, some file sharing, etc. done right now without ldap, so I don't really need all that additional stuff.

Is using Centos/Fedora is only way to have FreeIPA?
Is it possible and supported to use Debian as client of FreeIPA?

Do you have any advice on the best way to do this?

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 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?

I was trying to do an update using Update Manager and I got the error message:

No space left on device), E:IO Error saving source cache, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

I have attached a copy of my disk usage and it shows root as 100%. I thought that I had put the Home folder on it's own partition but I guess not.

I have also included the results of the ls -l command but fail to see what is using the space.

I am using LinuxMint Linux version 3.11-2-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.8.1 (Debian 4.8.1-10) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.11.8-1 (2013-11-13)

Thanks for your help in advance.

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