Which Distro Is The One For Me?

Hi guys,

I'm new to this forum and linux too.
I thought of installing a lightweight distro of linux and did some research on the net where I found people recommending Puppy Linux. Plus it is (theoretically speaking) possible to run it from a USB (flash) drive which I decided to try out but it seems like it's not that simple a task as a lot of people (all over the internet) say it is.

What I tried so far is this: installing it into a thumb drive using unetbootin follwing a youtube tutorial (which basically showed how to download an iso of puppy, use unetbootin to make the thumbdrive bootable and install puppy on it). It didn't work. The USB wasn't recognized as a bootable device. I know for sure it can be booted from it since I tried ubuntu from the same USB and the same Laptop (which is able to boot from USB).

I thought that something with the Flash Drive not OK so I tried to use a windows installer to install puppy like other windows programms but this didn't work either. This time Puppy was recognized because there was an option to boot either Puppy or Windows 7 but when I chose to boot from Puppy nothing happens just a screen flash, some letters in the top left corner saying something like NTSC or NTSF (I can't read it properly because it goes away too fast) then after the screen flash the whole thing again (boot from win 7 or Puppy I choose Puppy again the flash... basically a loop).

Any ideas what I'm doing wron or what the problem is?

Thank You for any replies.

hello dear Linux-experts,


today i create a rescue-system for the emergency-situation:

i am creating a little resque-usb for SUSE-DVD on USB-Stick


aimed: to create a litle Rescue-USB while using Suse-ISO DVD on a USB medium 1:1 copied

step 1. Suse-ISO download:

he http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/o...-CD-x86_64.iso

step 2 copy the file onto a USB stick with the following command

Code:

dd if=openSUSE-13.2-Rescue-CD-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=32k

where sdX=sdb or sdc is the USB stick


ready - now i can test the rescue-usb

I am having problems with my Sony Vaio windows
it boots up saying (on a black screen, grey text):
==============================================
Windows Boot Manager
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next."
3. Click "Repair your computer."
If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.
Status: 0xc0000225
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
Enter=Continue ESC=Exit
==========================================
No matter how many times i tried to restart and even tried F10 repeatedly or Alt-F10 I can't get to any other screen other than the above screen.

So I thought ah to hell with windows on this machine. I'll just install a linux distro because it's for my uncle all he really needs is internet and watch youtube videos/movies.

I have successfully burned and installed Fedora before on other machines using LiveCDs when they had CDs.

This time I tried to burn the DVD since it's it doesn't fit on the CD (I got my ISO from http://download.fedoraproject.org/pu...86_64-21-5.iso)
But when i inserted my DVD and restarted the same black screen appears.

So i have been looking for an older version of Fedora that fits on a CD (I am thinking maybe it'll boot from a CD, not sure though) but can't find any.

Any thoughts or solution to my problem?

Thanks in advance.

I've been using/testing Zorin 9, Mint 12, and Ubuntu 14 on 2 older computers for about 2 weeks now and I'm completely impressed with the look and feel especially of Zorin and Ubuntu. My problem is that I also have 2 newer computers that I am unable to install or even test any of the 3 on due to I imagine video incompatibilities. I get to the point where you choose the partition, and I just choose the defaults and then I get this sort of Linux version of the BSOD. I've tried all three in different configurations but nothing is working. I figure I just need current Video Drivers for Linux but there's no way, at least that I know of to update them cause Windows doesn't recognize the "run" command and I can't get into Linux to update it there. Any advice is appreciated.

Thank You
John

hi there once again
Now I am getting this problem which running the cmd "honeyd -d -f honeyd.conf"
root@kali:/etc/honeypot# honeyd -d -f honeyd.conf
Honeyd V1.5c Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Niels Provos
honeyd[4726]: started with -d -f honeyd.conf
honeyd[4726]: listening promiscuously on eth0: (arp or ip proto 47 or (udp and src port 67 and dst port 68) or (ip )) and not ether src 98:4b:e1:94:62:46
honeyd[4726]: [eth0] trying DHCP
honeyd[4726]: Demoting process privileges to uid 65534, gid 65534
honeyd[4726]: [eth0] got DHCP offer: 192.168.23.2
honeyd[4726]: Updating ARP binding: 00:00:24:26:26:1d -> 192.168.23.2
honeyd[4726]: arp reply 192.168.23.2 is-at 00:00:24:26:26:1d
honeyd[4726]: TTL exceeded for dst 224.0.0.22 at gw 10.0.0.1
honeyd[4726]: No reverse routing map for 10.0.0.1
honeyd[4726]: TTL exceeded for dst 224.0.0.22 at gw 10.0.0.1
honeyd[4726]: No reverse routing map for 10.0.0.1
honeyd[4726]: TTL exceeded for dst 224.0.0.22 at gw 10.0.0.1
honeyd[4726]: No reverse routing map for 10.0.0.1
honeyd[4726]: TTL exceeded for dst 224.0.0.22 at gw 10.0.0.1
honeyd[4726]: No reverse routing map for 10.0.0.1

what does it mean? because it starts to spam the terminal with such errors. or it is not??

I think, I have to edit the "honeyd.conf" file, but no clue.
the following is my honeyd configuration.

route entry 10.0.0.1
route 10.0.0.1 link 10.2.0.0/24
route 10.0.0.1 add net 10.3.0.0/16 10.3.0.1 latency 8ms bandwidth 10Mbps
route 10.3.0.1 link 10.3.0.0/24
route 10.3.0.1 add net 10.3.1.0/24 10.3.1.1 latency 7ms loss 0.5
route 10.3.1.1 link 10.3.1.0/24

# Example of a simple host template and its binding
create template
set template personality "Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1"
set template uptime 1728650
set template maxfds 35
# For a complex IIS server
add template tcp port 80 "sh /usr/share/honeyd/scripts/win32/web.sh"
add template tcp port 22 "/usr/share/honeyd/scripts/test.sh $ipsrc $dport"
add template tcp port 23 proxy $ipsrc:23
add template udp port 53 proxy 141.211.92.141:53
set template default tcp action reset
# Use this if you are not running honeyd as 'honeyd' user:
# Debian-specific (use nobody = 65534 instead of 32767)
# set template uid 65534 gid 65534

create default
set default default tcp action block
set default default udp action block
set default default icmp action block

create windows
set windows personality "Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1"
set windows default tcp action reset
add windows tcp port 135 open
add windows tcp port 139 open
add windows tcp port 445 open

set windows ethernet "00:00:24:ab:8c:12"
dhcp windows on eth0


urgent help needed please. thanks in advance

Hello Gents,
Ive recently converted to Linux, only problem is, i can't get Linux Mint to download. I go to the BIOS, boot from USB, which has the Distro, i go through the configuration, Laptop does its thing, (looks like a bunch of garble, with being a noob and all) and then finally, i end up with:
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BusyBox v1.21.1 (ubuntu 1:1.21.0-1ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands

(initramfs) [ 37.512065] random: nonblocking pool is initialized

_
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I had previously installed unbuntu on this laptop alongside Windows 7 a long time ago, but i ended up deleting it because i was having some other issues. for anyone who can help, i can send a picture of whats actually on the screen, since i cant add a photo directly from my hdd. sorry about not making this brief, but tried to explain as much as i much as i could to help you help me. Thank you.

Sorry, but I just have a terrible time getting started in Linux. What I want for the moment (having set up a partition on WinXP and ran a distro before) is a live MINT USB distro on a 64GB stick plugged into a Win7 machine. Since stick is 64GB, I am dealing with exfat. Found Gparted and seems to be okay, but gives an ominous warning about launching the win 32 formatter off of the stick drive and NOT windows (C:\). That part is understood. However I see the prompt "hit any key to format L" and when I look up at the colored title bar of the window, I read cmd: C:\ etc. that makes me wonder am in C: or L: (the USB drive letter). The Gparted iso in resident in L: but the drive needs C: for computing power etc. I know, I'm such a newbie it must be painful for many to read. I just don't want to screw up the MBR of C: In short. Unetbootin, MINT 17 and Gparted are all on L: and unzipped on a exfat USB thumbdrive. I want to fix the exfat to be readable by Unetbootin so I can make a live USB. I might be doing it correctly, but the top bar of the widow reading cmd: c:\etc etc scares me.

I using Ubantu 14.04 with 64 bit . I tried to install ns2.35 .Last part of validation message is shown below… How to correct the error..?Is it a dependency problem? How can i correct it? Thanks in advance…….


Quote:

These messages are NOT errors and can be ignored:
warning: using backward compatibility mode
This test is not implemented in backward compatibility mode[

validate overall report: some tests failed:
./test-all-tcpLinux
to re-run a specific test, cd tcl/test; ./test-all-TEST-NAME

How does a man like me boot from a dvd to test the Ubuntu studio distro. I don't know what keys to press when rebooting and it's not re booting by itself.

OK, I've created my user, I read all the post like: "Sticky: Please READ this before posting!" and the recommended post.

This morning I tried to upgrade my Debian Wheezy to Debian Jessie. I took a while to read the release-notes, change the source.list typing "jessie" in order of "wheezy".

Then, I opened a script with:

# script -t 2>~/actualiza-a-jessie01.time -a ~/actualiza-a-jessie01.script

and, finally:

# apt-get dist-upgrade

The installation started and all was go on until the postgresql when the installation stops and there was nothing to do. A lot of time after I decide restar the computer but now it doesn't start.

Appears the Debian 8 start menu with:
GNU GRUP versión 2.02

And the menu options:
Debian GNU/Linux
Opciones avanzadas para Debian GNU/Linux
Memory test (memtest86+)
Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)
Memory test (memtest86+, experimental multiboot)
Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200, experimental multiboot)

When I select GNU/Linux I only get:
Loanding, please wait...
fsck from util-linux 2.25.2
/dev/sda1: clean, 619892/30269440 files, 68856006/121052672 blocks

and then.... nothing.

What can I do to restore my computer?

Thanks in advance.