Difference: DebianTips (5 vs. 6)

Revision 631 May 2002 - TobyCabot

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Debian GNU/Linux is the computer operating system that I use when I get to choose.  It's a version of the GNU/Linux operating system that's developed cooperatively by people around the globe.  It's very stable, very high-quality, and you can decide for yourself whether you want older, more proven software, or newer software, or bleeding-edge software.  Freedom and control.  Sweeeet.
 netinst-2.2r4.iso - this is a small file that allows you to burn an installation CD that gets most of its files from the net. I thought that this would be a cool thing to write - this guy beat me to it.  http://markybobdeb.sourceforge.net/elf/
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+woody netinst - http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ - this guy picked up the ball and created a netinst cd for Debian woody.
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+woody netinst - http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ - this guy picked up the ball and created a netinst cd for Debian woody.  One small bug: the installation program set up the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the 'stable' distribution, which is (as I write this) potato, not woody.  You need to change it to 'woody' and apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade.
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+-- TobyCabot - 05 Jun 2001
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+installing Debian - install the smallest number of packages possible during the initial install process.  I've found that it's better to get a minimal system fully up and running and then add packages to it later.

After installation check: 

 is all of the system memory recognized (i.e. cat /proc/meminfo)?  If not you might need to use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel, or pass the amount of memory into lilo.
  if you've got more than one cpu, are they all recognized (i.e. cat /proc/cpuinfo)?  If not then you might need to recompile the kernel with SMP support.
  are the disk drives using DMA (i.e. hdparm -d /dev/hda)?
 

Before you walk away from the console: 

 add one non-root account (Debian by default doesn't let root log in remotely)
  install ssh server and client
  ssh to another machine and then back again (just to test that you can)
 

-- TobyCabot - 05 Jun 2001 - 31 May 2002

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