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Bootstrapping Debian Unstable

cj2003 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:23:07 +0000

It turns out that the following is all it takes to install Debian Unstable in a chroot jail under Ubuntu, and then to log into that jail as root Read more here

Automated Customized Debian Installation Using Preseed

cj2003 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:20:05 +0000

I’ve always wanted to create a custom Debian installer CD with a preseed file for automated installation. This post is the first step in realizing that dream. There are many steps and details involved in the process but creating a CD with a preseed.cfg file is the easiest because it’s repeatable step-by-step. So that’s where I start my quest. Read more here

How to Assemble a Home Network Storage Server

cj2003 — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:03:01 +0000

My OS of choice is Linux, and for this small, headless system, Debian seemed ideal. Installation of Debian is generally smooth and simple, but I managed to complicate things by trying to install from a USB flashdrive. Read it here

Debian on an old laptop – advice from Make Tech Easier

cj2003 — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:09:42 +0000

Like Price, I’ve done my share of minimal Debian installations, then building up the system with just the packages I need. That’s especially necessary when you have a very small hard drive, like the 3 GB disk in my now-12-year-old Compaq Armada 7770dmt, which is running Debian Squeeze with Xfce right now. Read more here

Debian on the DreamPlug

cj2003 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:12:55 +0000

So let’s say you want to put Debian on your DreamPlug. You do, of course, because running some other operating system is in poor taste, and you’d be embarrassed telling your friends. How do you do it? You can’t use d-i. More here

Debian on Thinkpad Edge 11″

cj2003 — Sun, 22 May 2011 11:54:54 +0000

This has been several months since I didn’t use much my laptop, an Asus S5N: it was crippled by a short battery life and was hit by several bugs, most of them targeting the i855GME graphic chipset thanks to the use of GEM and KMS in the latest Xorg. I did not want to invest too much in a laptop and I have found a rebate from Lenovo for Thinkpad Edge series. Voilà, I have a Thinkpad Edge 11”. More here

Installing Debian

cj2003 — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:15:03 +0000

The next stage in the great project to migrate back from Debian from OpenSolaris: installing Debian. Wow, it’s so much easier these days! Here are my random notes from the install. More here

Debian on an iMac (100%)

cj2003 — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:34:10 +0000

I nervously installed Debian as soon as the machine arrived. What if it did not work, would I have to use OS X for the next three or four years ? Luckily, everything went well, and the procedure is much simpler than it looks More here

Installing Debian Squeeze

cj2003 — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:48:14 +0000

Over the weekend I tried installing Debian’s new release, “Squeeze”, on my Vaio TX650 laptop. I used a “net install” CD, the one that installs only the bare minimum then goes to the net for anything else. More here

Mintifying Debian

cj2003 — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:00:43 +0000

Happily, another of the virtues of LMDE is that is aims to be fully compatible with her parent and, therefore, one can always do a regular Debian installation with the advanced options he or she needs and then mintifying it by adding the Mint repositories. The result does not look exactly like a fresh LMDE install, but it saves you a lot of time configuring Debian in order to make it usable for multimedia and other usual tasks. More here