Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi David, Lest we get flamed for "top post"ing, I've rearranged the segments of this discussion to conform to the conventions of debian-users. Look for my reply at the bottom of this email... /-: On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:19 PM, David Harrison wrote: Hi, I thought I'd like to install Debi

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-08 Thread Dick Thomas
On 8 January 2013 19:16, Grześ Andruszkiewicz wrote: > Hi, > > Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? I.e. I heard > that you need to align the partitions to 32bit virtual clusters (is it > actually true?). Are there any other things I need to take into > account while installing

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Grześ Andruszkiewicz wrote: > Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? Wheezy 7.0, yes. Squeeze 6.0, no. > I.e. I heard that you need to align the partitions to 32bit virtual > clusters (is it actually true?). The Wheezy 7.0 installer will do the right thing automatically. Earli

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-08 Thread Sposkpat Sposkpat
I installed Squeeze over a year ago. Still OK (60 Gb SSD) --- On Tue, 1/8/13, Grześ Andruszkiewicz wrote: > From: Grześ Andruszkiewicz > Subject: Installing Debian on an SSD > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 11:16 AM > Hi, > > Does the Debian installer work o

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 08 January 2013 19:48:05 Bob Proulx wrote: > Grześ Andruszkiewicz wrote: > > Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? > > Wheezy 7.0, yes.  Squeeze 6.0, no. Sorry, Bob, but I disagree. I installed Squeeze on an SSD both four months ago on my own new box and last weekend

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Bob Proulx > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:48 AM > Subject: Re: Installing Debian on an SSD > > [snip] >> I.e. I heard that you need to align the partitions to 32bit virtual >&g

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Grześ Andruszkiewicz wrote: > > > Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? > > > > Wheezy 7.0, yes. Squeeze 6.0, no. > > Sorry, Bob, but I disagree. I could be wrong. :-) The part in particular I am thinking of is the installer partition

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Earlier in this mailing list there has been much discussion about > > partition alignments because people see what looks like wasted space > > but is there specifically to work with the new advanced format > > partitioning. It will work fine. > > [sn

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 11 January 2013 06:15:52 Bob Proulx wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Grześ Andruszkiewicz wrote: > > > > Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? > > > > > > Wheezy 7.0, yes. Squeeze 6.0, no. > > > > Sorry, Bob, but I disagree. > > I could be wrong.

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi Reisz wrote: > root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# sfdisk -d /dev/sda > # partition table of /dev/sda > unit: sectors > > /dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 58591232, Id=83, bootable That 2048 there shows that it did the right thing. So I am wrong and Squeeze does handle it correctly. Thank you for co

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 11 January 2013 19:58:47 Bob Proulx wrote: > As a side note I always set up OpenVPN between my laptops and my home > server so that I can always connect to my laptop without knowing what > address it is dynamically using at the moment.  You could then log in > remotely and check on things

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-11 Thread '2+
i didnt fully read the conversation but when i install debian on my mini9's ssd i start from expert-install (even tho am not at all ;) ) and at the patitioning stage i choose ext2 and even go to the option menu to choose the top of of it which seems to be the safe one for ssd starting from a exper

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-12 Thread Hormatzhan Yiltiz
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Grześ Andruszkiewicz wrote: > > Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? > > Wheezy 7.0, yes. Squeeze 6.0, no. > > > I.e. I heard that you need to align the partitions to 32bit virtual > > clusters (is it actually true?). > > The

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 05:05:12AM +0800, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote: > > This page, as you pointed out, is more than a guideline. Can someone please > polish this up a little bit? That would be a wonderful and appreciative. Huh? Start here: http://wiki.debian.org/FrontPage?action=newaccount -- "

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-20 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Grześ Andruszkiewicz, 8.01.2013: > > Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? I.e. I heard > that you need to align the partitions to 32bit virtual clusters (is it > actually true?). Are there any other things I need to take into > account while installing Debian on SSD? > > I bou

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 05:05:12AM +0800, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/SSDoptimization > > > This page, as you pointed out, is more than a guideline. Can someone please > polish this up a little bit? That would be a

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-02-16 Thread Hormatzhan Yiltiz
D ​ear fellas, Why there is no anything-sync-daemon, goanysync​ or profile-sync-daemon in Debian, even in Sid?! 祝好, He who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy to receive* all else* from you (and me). The Proph

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-02-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 17 feb 13, 14:09:38, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote: > D > ​ear fellas, > Why there is no anything-sync-daemon, goanysync​ or profile-sync-daemon in > Debian, even in Sid?! How is this related to SSDs? Please write a new message with a proper subject explaining what you need and we might be able

Re: installing debian linux from cdrom

2000-01-25 Thread Bill Keegan
> Subject: installing debian linux from cdrom > Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:54:14 PST > From: "Nam-Anh Pham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > I recently got a debian linux cd (Slink release, version 2.1). I tried to > install it on my old 486, but it would not recognize th

Re: Installing Debian from partition image

2007-09-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:57:19PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Installing the partition from the Debian 4.0r0 multi-arch DVD, without any > updates to it, will allow easy replication, since the DVD is widely > available, right? What do you mean by this? If you install from an r0 then you

Re: Installing Debian from partition image

2007-09-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
What about installing one Computer and the taring the whole installation and burn it with a Minimal-Distro on a CD/DVD. Then booting those CD, untaring the tarbal in the newly crated partitions and writing the bootloader into it? I do this for over 4000 installations... for which i need only 210

Re: Installing Debian from a Lan

2007-10-03 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:48:29 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am hoping to install Debian over a lan. I know this is possible but I > haven't found much information on it. Suggestions? Please be a bit more specific about what exactly you want to do. > Could I set up the server to be 64b

Re: Installing Debian by installation disk

2007-01-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 25 2007 06:35, Colin Perkins wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have installed both Gnome and KDE. > > Xinit shows 6 titles starting with X ; whether a xserver is running > or not - I do not know. > > I have read the installation documents ; but I am still not sure what > I am doing, > I a

Re: Installing Debian from a Lan

2007-10-04 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am hoping to install Debian over a lan. I know this is possible but I > haven't found much information on it. Suggestions? > > Could I set up the server to be 64bit but provide the packages for the 386 > install? That shouldn't be much o

Re: installing debian on a Jaz

2001-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:35:39PM +0200, Maxime Gamboni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all ! > > I am new to this mailinglist (as well as to the linux world :-) > I want to install debian on my pc, but there's already windows > installed on it, and I don't want to partition the hard disk (which

Re: installing debian on a Jaz

2001-10-07 Thread Andre Berger
* Karsten M. Self , 2001-10-07 21:40 +0200: > on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:35:39PM +0200, Maxime Gamboni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > If you don't already own a Jaz, don't buy one. They're expensive, > unreliable, utterly fucked pieces of shit. Iomega can die. You can > quote me on that. I ag

Re: installing debian on a Jaz

2001-10-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:13:48PM +0200, Andre Berger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self , 2001-10-07 21:40 +0200: > > on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:35:39PM +0200, Maxime Gamboni ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > If you don't already own a Jaz, don't buy one. They're expensive, > >

Re: Installing Debian on notebook failled.

2002-05-07 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Nico Berg wrote: >not asked all other questions are asked! Then I am in a loop. Nothing to do Difficult problem. I have no idea what could be wrong. However, you could try bootdisks with different kernel-image, or you could try adding swap from command line (Alt-F2) in the ver

Re: Installing Debian on notebook failled.

2002-05-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:47:43PM +0200, Nico Berg wrote: > I have a problem with the installation of Debian. I can reproduce this > problem so I asking myself: is it a bug how to solve the problem? Yes, it's a bug, in base-config. It's been fixed in unstable and will be pushed into testing soon

Re: Installing Debian on notebook failled.

2002-05-07 Thread Mike Hommey
I had the same problem when I installed woody recently. Try to get an old (more than a month old) unofficial cdrom of woody and install the base system with it ; the base system you get via net install or by getting a fresh iso contains this bug. On Tue, 7 May 2002 12:47:43 +0200 "Nico Berg" <[EM

Re: Installing Debian on notebook failled.

2002-05-07 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Tue, 7 May 2002 14:04:09 +0300 (EEST) "Tuukka Toivonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2002, Nico Berg wrote: > > >not asked all other questions are asked! Then I am in a loop. Nothing > >to do > > Difficult problem. I have no idea what could be wrong. However, you > could try boo

Re: Installing Debian on notebook failled.

2002-05-07 Thread Alexei Khlebnikov
On Tue, 7 May 2002 12:47:43 +0200 "Nico Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > not asked all other questions are asked! Then I am in a loop. Nothing > to do about it. I can open a console and kill the installer then > Debian is going on with the mailquestions. (I don't know if there has > to be other

Re: Installing Debian on notebook failled.

2002-05-08 Thread Tomasz Buchwald
Dnia Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:30:36PM +0200, Mike Hommey napisal(a): :I had the same problem when I installed woody recently. : :Try to get an old (more than a month old) unofficial cdrom of woody and :install the base system with it ; the base system you get via net :install or by getting a fr

Re: Installing Debian on notebook failled.

2002-05-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, 8 May 2002 13:11:34 +0200 "Tomasz Buchwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dnia Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:30:36PM +0200, Mike Hommey napisal(a): > :I had the same problem when I installed woody recently. > : > :Try to get an old (more than a month old) unofficial cdrom of woody and > :inst

Re: installing debian on home network

2005-09-24 Thread Nelson Castillo
> I've another box on which I wish to install Debian (again 2.6). I tried > to use a netinst CD on this box but it hangs (with no indication of what > is happening) after probing hardware. I guess this is when it's trying > to detect a network (but why doesn't it fail then offer me to skip this > s

Re: installing debian on home network

2005-09-24 Thread michael
>> I've another box on which I wish to install Debian (again 2.6). I tried >> to use a netinst CD on this box but it hangs (with no indication of what >> is happening) after probing hardware. I guess this is when it's trying >> to detect a network (but why doesn't it fail then offer me to skip this

Re: installing debian on home network

2005-09-24 Thread Thomas Jollans
michael wrote: I'm sure this has been covered before but I can't find it in the archives so all pointers welcomed! I've a Debian box (2.6, unstable) connected to the Internet via USB Broadband modem (I'm in the UK). ie it's nto a router/modem but the mobo does have a network port. I've another

Re: installing debian on AMD opterons

2009-04-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi,01.apr.09, 16:37:39, zhang zhengquan wrote: > Hello, debian community, > Tomorrow I will install lenny on a server with two dual core AMD opteron cpus. > > I would like any debian users to confirm that > > this is what I need to download, burn and install? > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian

Re: installing debian on AMD opterons

2009-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-01 16:37, zhang zhengquan wrote: Hello, debian community, Tomorrow I will install lenny on a server with two dual core AMD opteron cpus. I would like any debian users to confirm that this is what I need to download, burn and install? http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/amd64/is

Re: installing debian on AMD opterons

2009-04-01 Thread Mark Allums
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-04-01 16:37, zhang zhengquan wrote: Hello, debian community, Tomorrow I will install lenny on a server with two dual core AMD opteron cpus. I would like any debian users to confirm that this is what I need to download, burn and install? http://cdimage.debian.org/de

RE: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-27 Thread David Christensen
Zachary Uram wrote: > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium > ... Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do to shrink the > Vista install by 50% and install Debian squeeze (64bit AMD) on the > 250GB partition that will be freed > ... (it has 4GB ram) ... I did

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,27.Jun.09, 22:57:30, Zachary Uram wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium > (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. Most probably, but the installers partitioning utility can confirm that for you. > I assume it is

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-28 Thread John L Fjellstad
Zachary Uram writes: > Hi, > > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium > (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. > I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do > to shrink the Vista install by 50% and install Debia

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-28 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 28 June 2009 09:50:52 John L Fjellstad wrote: > Zachary Uram writes: > > Hi, > > > > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium > > (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. > > I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly wh

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-28 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Sunday 28 June 2009 09:50:52 John L Fjellstad wrote: >> Zachary Uram writes: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium >> > (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 07:08:20AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Sunday 28 June 2009 09:50:52 John L Fjellstad wrote: > >> Zachary Uram writes: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium >

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-28 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium > (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. > I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do > to shrink the Vista install by 50% and

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-28 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 28 June 2009 14:50:27 Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 07:08:20AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 June 2009 09:50:52 John L Fjellstad wrote: > > >> Zachary Uram writes: > > >> > Hi, > > >> > > > >> > I ha

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-29 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Alan Greenberger ha scritto: On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram wrote: Hi, I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do to shrink the Vist

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-29 Thread mess-mate
Le 29/06/2009 13:37, Lorenzo Beretta a écrit : Alan Greenberger ha scritto: On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram wrote: Hi, I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-29 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
mess-mate wrote: Le 29/06/2009 13:37, Lorenzo Beretta a écrit : Alan Greenberger ha scritto: On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram wrote: Hi, I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. I assume it is NTFS. C

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,29.Jun.09, 18:00:09, mess-mate wrote: > > > >quote - that's how I did it on my laptop. > >As for your other question - "how to partition?" is a faq, with around > >1234567 possible answers; as for grub, it detects vista automagically > >(as "Vista/Longhonrn") > > > > > Hi, if it can help.. >

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-07-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:49:18PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Yup, no problem as long as you have some unpartitioned disk space on > your hard drive. If not, you can use gparted from a live cd to shrink > your windows partition. It might be that you need to defragment (in > windows!) you

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-07-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:48:47AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,27.Jun.09, 22:57:30, Zachary Uram wrote: […] > > Also what do you > > recommend for swap size (it has 4GB ram) and just have 1 big root > > partition with everything on it or spl

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-07-07 Thread Paul Scott
Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:49:18PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Yup, no problem as long as you have some unpartitioned disk space on your hard drive. If not, you can use gparted from a live cd to shrink your windows partition. It might be that you need to defragment (in

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-07-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:30:06PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:49:18PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> >>> Yup, no problem as long as you have some unpartitioned disk space on >>> your hard drive. If not, you can use gparted from a live cd to shri

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-07-07 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:30:06PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: >> Rob Owens wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:49:18PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >>> Yup, no problem as long as you have some unpartitioned disk space on your hard drive.

Re: Installing Debian using USB Key

2009-11-27 Thread Florian Kriener
On Friday 27 November 2009 18:31:18 Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > wget > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz > zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX Did you unmount your USB stick first and did you substitute sdX with the right device file? If not zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX

Re: Installing Debian using USB Key

2009-11-27 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Florian Kriener wrote: > On Friday 27 November 2009 18:31:18 Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> wget >> http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz >>  zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX > > Did you unmount your USB stick first and did you substitute sdX

Re: Installing Debian using USB Key

2009-11-27 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Installing a new mbr should not be necessary, but if you do unmout your >> stick before doing it. >> >>> sudo install-mbr /dev/sdX > > Ok let me try again without this. That's even worse. When I reboost. Hit F12, select USB devices (ins

Re: Installing Debian From a Floppy

2001-06-18 Thread Robin Gerard
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:44:45AM +0300, Nagib Abi Fadel wrote: > How can i Install Debian2.2 ? > Can i download any files that will help me booting from a floppy disk ?? 1 add on your boot dikette for win95 the file mscdex.exe and the device driver of your CD-ROM drive. in my autoexec.bat I hav

Re: Installing Debian From a Floppy

2001-06-19 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Nagib Abi Fadel wrote: Hi, i want to install Debian2.2 on my PC. I have two partitions: On the first one i'm running win95 (FAT16). I reserved the second one for installing Debian2.2. I have a bootable CD but my PC doesn't support booting from CD. How can i Install Debian2.2 ? Can i download an

Re: Installing Debian using custom kernel

2010-03-09 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
Have checked to see if the Kmuto installer fits your needs? I should have drivers for the Broadcom netextreme (assuming that is what it is) but I am not sure about the RAID controller. You can check it out at: http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Tushar Joshi wrote: > > I'v

Re: Installing Debian using custom kernel

2010-03-09 Thread Tushar Joshi
Thanks for this, the latest amd64 kernel 2.6.32 worked. I had actually managed to crack this finally by making my own kernel on another machine and copying over the simple-cdd image before the ISO was created but this felt like a bit of a hack even though it worked and I opted for Kmuto's images i

Re: Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 20:29:21, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Recently I placed the netinst i386 debian installer on an old USB stick > using: > zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdc > > and I've installed one machine using it. However yesterday I was trying > to install debian itself on a USB stick and the inst

Re: Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-08 Thread Bob
On 02/09/2011 04:29 AM, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Recently I placed the netinst i386 debian installer on an old USB stick using: zcat boot.img.gz> /dev/sdc and I've installed one machine using it. However yesterday I was trying to install debian itself on a USB stick and the installer found it c

Re: Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-09 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 Feb 2011 at 20:29:21 +, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Recently I placed the netinst i386 debian installer on an old USB stick > using: > zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdc And then copied myselected.iso to the stick? You can save yourself some work with cat myselected.iso > /dev/sdc >

Re: Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: I've been playing a lot with USB installs lately. At the installing grub step you have to be careful to select the corect device, especially if you don't want to touch the laptop's HDD. And you might want to put /tmp on tmpfs. Other that that it's just a normal install.

Re: Installing Debian from USB stick

2010-08-13 Thread Kousik Maiti
Try this http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:08 PM, James Stuckey wrote: > Could someone please provide me with directions for installing Debian from > a usb stick? > > Please reply to my address as I'm not subscribed to the debian-user list. > -- Wishing you the ve

Re: Installing Debian from USB stick

2010-08-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/13/2010 11:59 AM, Kousik Maiti wrote: > Try this > > http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:08 PM, James Stuckey wrote: > >> Could someone please provide me with directions for installing Debian from >> a usb stick

Re: Installing Debian from USB stick

2010-08-13 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:18:57PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > I am a regular help on the Debian IRC channel, and I can say that I am > not sure unetbootin works for anyone. I have tested once myself, and I > had the same issue has the floods of users on IRC. "failed to find cdrom > devices".

Re: Installing Debian from USB stick

2010-08-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/13/2010 12:37 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > I personally have never had a problem with unetbootin. I've created > several bootable USB drives with it: Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and more. > Works great here. > - From what I understand, it works w

Re: Installing Debian from USB stick

2010-08-13 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:58:13PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > - From what I understand, it works with testing but not stable. I have > also used it with other distributions without issue. Ah, the only stable install I have is a headless server. All of my graphical installs are either testing

Re: Installing Debian from USB stick

2010-08-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jordan Metzmeier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/13/2010 11:59 AM, Kousik Maiti wrote: Try this http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:08 PM, James Stuckey wrote: Could someone please provide me with directions for installing Debian from a

Re: Installing Debian from USB stick

2010-08-13 Thread Mark
> > Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > I am a regular help on the Debian IRC channel, and I can say that I am >> not sure unetbootin works for anyone. > > +1. I have mentioned the lack of unetbootin success a few times on this mailing list before myself. The Debian installation manual, however, has work

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Jonathan Copeland wrote: > Hi Debian Community > > I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, > What is the best and most secure way of doing this? You have several options. 1. You can run Debian in a virtual machine. 2.

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/26/15, Dan Ritter wrote: > > You have several options. > > 1. You can run Debian in a virtual machine. > > 2. You can repartition your disk(s) and install Debian in a > dual-boot. > > 3. You can wipe Mac OS and install Debian by itself. > > In any of those scenarios, you can encrypt the Debia

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 9:30:06 PM UTC+5:30, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Jonathan Copeland wrote: > > Hi Debian Community > > > > I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, > > What is the best and most secure way of doing t

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 9:30:06 PM UTC+5:30, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Jonathan Copeland wrote: > > > Hi Debian Community > > > > > > I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my > > > degre

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 11:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Rusi Mody wrote: > > > On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 9:30:06 PM UTC+5:30, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Jonathan Copeland wrote: > > > > Hi Debian Community > >

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/26/2015 06:24 AM, Jonathan Copeland wrote: Hi Debian Community I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, What is the best and most secure way of doing this? Thank you so much ___ Jonathan Michael Copeland *M *// (+27) 82 857 1349 *T *// @jonmcopeland

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/26/2015 06:24 AM, Jonathan Copeland wrote: Hi Debian Community I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, What is the best and most secure way of doing this? Thank you so much ___ Jonathan Michael Copeland *M *// (+27) 82 857 1349 *T *// @jonmcopeland

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 11:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Patrick Bartek > wrote: > > > [snip] > > > It would help me if there was uniformity with all using linux > > > Since I have no idea about macs, wondering if this works. > > > > If you need uniformity --

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-28 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 28.01.2015 um 03:30 schrieb Rusi Mody : > Thanks for the input. > Yeah I (personally) need to get onto the VM bandwagon. > [I downloaded (from apt) virtualbox a while ago but have not got round to > trying it... > > So you are suggesting I get it from virtualbox website and not from apt? Ok

Re: Installing debian on qosmio laptop

2015-09-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 11:43 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi > > I have a Qosmio G25 that I have had for some year. It has been a dual > > boot system with Windoz XP on one 60GB drive and Debian Wheezy on the > > other 60GB drive using a Grub2 loader. I recently tried to up grade > to > Jessie

Re: Installing debian on qosmio laptop

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/17/2015 12:39 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 11:43 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Hi I have a Qosmio G25 that I have had for some year. It has been a dual boot system with Windoz XP on one 60GB drive and Debian Wheezy on the other 60GB drive using a Grub2 loader. I recently t

Re: Installing debian on qosmio laptop

2015-09-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 17 September 2015 21:21:37 Gary Roach wrote: > No debian > netinstall disk that I have tried has worked. I have never had one that didn't work. Have you checked your downloads? Where are you getting them from? Lisi

Re: Installing debian on qosmio laptop

2015-09-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 17 September 2015 22:52:04 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 17 September 2015 21:21:37 Gary Roach wrote: > > No debian > > netinstall disk that I have tried has worked. > > I have never had one that didn't work. Have you checked your downloads? > Where are you getting them from? How a

Re: Installing Debian on many PCs

1998-04-29 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 04:33:09PM -, Hubert Tonneau wrote: > I am the manager of the computing department in a > french company. We are currently running most servers > under OS/2 witch had been chosen in 1992 and are > now planning to move to Linux. > > I am very pleased with the Debian dpkg

Re: installing Debian and WinNT 4.0

1999-01-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have to use NT for work sometimes so I boot into it when I have to print Office97 stuff and to use Photoshop 5. Anyways, here is my lilo.conf, maybe it will help you. ##/etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz la

Re: installing Debian and WinNT 4.0

1999-01-06 Thread Richard Alhama
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Tom Lovie wrote: > Has anybody done a successful install of a dual boot machine with NT and > Debian? I read the mini-howto on NT-loader, but I don't like it that > much, since I have to transfer that LILO boot sector file across > filesystems every time that I rebuild the ker

Re: Installing Debian over Slackware Linux

1997-06-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Joseph B. Ottinger writes: > Hi, all. I'm currently running a version of Slackware Linux (3.2, > updated with the new kernel+libc and some other things). I'm still > relatively new to Linux, so my question may be something that's already > been answered or addressed. If so, please tell me where to

Re: installing Debian and installing programs

2004-07-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Jim Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I really want to learn Linux, but the books I have bought are not for > new people, they are for someone who understands all of the tech > jargon. What you need: 1 Geek friend 1 case of beer Bribe geek with Debian and case of beer to help you. Beyond that

Re: installing Debian and installing programs

2004-07-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 08:28, Jim Knott wrote: > I bought a distro from someone who sells a lot of Debian and when the install > failed, they even sent me a second set in case the first one was no good. The > installs went good up to the 2nd and 3rd disc's respectively, but wouldn't > install all

Re: installing Debian and installing programs

2004-07-07 Thread Kent West
Jim Knott wrote: I bought a distro from someone who sells a lot of Debian and when the install failed, they even sent me a second set in case the first one was no good. The installs went good up to the 2nd and 3rd disc's respectively, but wouldn't install all the way. Without knowing if this di

Re: installing Debian and installing programs

2004-07-07 Thread disciple
I have your answer. Go here... This place is awesome... You're going to love it I guarantee it... :o) www.aboutdebian.com The geek thing works also... :o) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing Debian and installing programs

2004-07-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:28:15PM -0600, Jim Knott wrote: > I bought a distro from someone who sells a lot of Debian and when the install > failed, they even sent me a second set in case the first one was no good. The > installs went good up to the 2nd and 3rd disc's respectively, but wouldn't

Re: installing Debian and installing programs

2004-07-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 06:45:03PM +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 08:28, Jim Knott wrote: > > I bought a distro from someone who sells a lot of Debian and when the install > > failed, they even sent me a second set in case the first one was no good. The > > installs went goo

Re: Installing Debian (fresh) from Linux????

1996-06-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Hal Brand wrote: > I'd like to install the latest Debian on a new SCSI disk (just partitioned). > I already have Linux running from a second SCSI disk. I'd like to avoid > the hassles of boot floppies, etc. as I already have a working Linux > running. (Note: my Linux is kernel

Re: Installing Debian (fresh) from Linux????

1996-06-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
> I'd like to install the latest Debian on a new SCSI disk (just partitioned). > I already have Linux running from a second SCSI disk. I'd like to avoid > the hassles of boot floppies, etc. as I already have a working Linux > running. (Note: my Linux is kernel 2.0.0, a.out, manually upgraded from

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