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Nori’s mini-HO WTO: Debian W o o dy on the Dell Inspiron 8000 Nori Heikkinen August 13, 2003 Rationale All my previous installs of Debian hav e b een really easy , but then again they’ve all been on PC desktops. The deal has b een: 1. Download the first ISO image onto CD 2. Stick the CD in your drive 3. (Make sure y ou hav e the BIOS set to bo[...]
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• 256M RAM • A TI T echnologies Inc Rage Mobility M4 AGP • ESS T ec hnology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10) • a Dell Logitech scrolly-wheel infrared mouse, model M-UR69 I was w orking off a Debian W o ody image with the sto c k kernel 2.2.20-idepci, downloaded from the Rutgers mirror here: ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/ pub/debia[...]
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linux video=vga16:off (The kernel image, followed b y the bo ot parameters.) Y ou can now bo ot up ok a y , but y ou’ll need to be wary of this when you’re glibly ‘ENTER’ing through menus later in the install — when you’re asked if you want to app end anything to the kernel image for the boot loader, you need to type that line ( video=v[...]
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if the display is not p erfect — it might not crash if it’s not, but if it does, you don’t wan t to hav e to not only wait for it to check all its ino des (if you hav en’t yet tune2fs ’d it to ext3 — see Section 7.1), but p erhaps screw up in the pro cess of so many crashes. If that’s p erfect, great! If not, read on . . . 1.2.2 Horiz[...]
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But, b ecause y ou’ll probably wan t to prin t, to o, you’ll need all of the follo w- ing (or so a website told me, and it work ed): apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client foomatic-bin samba smbclient gs-esp a2ps (Y ou don’t have to do that now — if y ou don’t wan t to prin t, or don’t wan t to do it through CUPS, only b other [...]
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kernel-package ) makes it really easy . But it w as not to be. I managed to screw up my whole install (and the RedHat and Windoze partitions on the b o x as w ell, by accidentally installing MBRs in them!). So, don’t do that. What you w ant to get down with is LKMs — Loadable Kernel Mo dules . In a n utshell, what is actually compiled into the [...]
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. . . where “8TRACK0” is my domain, “Nori Heikkinen” is my username, and “mypassw ord” is my password (not really , ha ha). Y ou can call this file what- ever y ou wan t to, and put it wherever you w ant. I called mine .smbmount-ned and put it in m y homedir; it really doesn’t matter. Now that y ou’ve got that file, you can use it[...]
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2.4.1 Using the CUPS browser in terface CUPS’ printer controls are located, convenien tly , here: http://localhost:631/ There’s a menu of tasks to choose from, from which you can configure new printers and manage the jobs of already-configured ones. Y ou’ll hav e to be ro ot for this, but working through a browser that a user o wns. (So, ju[...]
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3 External Mice This to ok me a while to figure out. F or whatever reason, I couldn’t just plug in my external USB mouse (which I nee de d in order to not kill my wrist on that damn trackpad! 2 ) and ha ve it work. Instead, like with the rest of this install, I wen t through a whole song and dance ab out it. The results follow. Ca vea t: This is[...]
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3.2 Configuring X Dman, of debian-user, made a nice little summary 3 that I’m going to copy wholesale: If you wan t mouse in console and X: • gpm reads from the mouse device itself. With a PS/2 mouse this is /dev/psaux. With a USB mouse (and devfs, I hav en’t used USB without devfs) it is /dev/input/mice. gpm needs to b e told the correct pr[...]
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InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Logitech Mouse" EndSection F or reference, my /etc/gpm.conf lo oks like this: device=/dev/input/mi ce responsiveness=30 repeat_type=raw type=imps2 append="" sample_rate= The important clauses there are the device, the repeat t yp e, and the t yp e. Mine is ImPS/2 ( imps2 , b [...]
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and to make sure it got inserted at bo ot time, by adding it to /etc/modules . Make sure your sound devices exist ( /dev/dsp* ). Mine did. At this p oint, try catting a wa ve file to your sound device, to see if that did the trick: spycellar: ~ # cat wavfile.wav > /dev/dsp Now y ou’re almost there. Y ou just need to add your username to the a[...]
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crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Jun 30 12:17 /dev/dsp1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 Jun 30 12:17 /dev/dsp2 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 Jun 30 12:17 /dev/dsp3 Y ou might hav e to restart X for the changes to tak e place within X, though they should work immediately on the console. This w as all it took for me. If you’re still at a loss, y ou n[...]
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configured your shell, window manager, or an y programs you’ve do wnloaded, your settings are saved there; /etc , b ecause the system files that you spent so long getting right are sav ed there. The first time, I just plain forgot; the second time, I purp osely didn’t back up /etc , b ecause the system files I’d screwed up were in there, [...]
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F or those as sketch y on filesystem types as I am, it seems to be pretty basic. In the README on the original ext3 download page, the author answ ers the journaling question: Q: What is journaling? A: It means you don’t ha ve to fsck after a crash. Basically . This is useful, because it means that every time your screen whites out and crashes w[...]
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any com bination of u/g/r permissions can b e specified by three unique num bers. ‘700’ means that the user has read, write, and execute p ermissions (6+4+1) but that no one else do es; ‘644’ means that the user has read and write p ermissions, and that every one in the same group and all others have only read p ermissions. It’s easy to [...]