Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

Hi Kent, It's much easier to write the image to the USB stick using the dd command instead: # dd if=debian-9.4.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M This should give you a working install stick. --Robert On Fri, May 11, 2018, 12:12 Kent West wrote: > I have a Dell Latitude

Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

Hi all, On my home desktop, I'm running Debian on the testing channel (currently at "buster"). A recent apt-get upgrade appears to have broken or removed a few vital virtualbox packages, including virtualbox-dkms. Launching any VM in virtualbox throws this error message: [error] The VirtualBox

Symlinking or hard linking additional storage to /home directories

Hello everyone, My current desktop setup currently has a Debian installation on a 120GB SSD, which is mounted with both the EFI system partition and as / for my rig. I have a 3TB HDD which I had mounted as /home during install. As my desktop case still has enough space in it, I was contemplating

Sound card with support either out-of-box (kernel support) or ALSA/Pulseaudio

Hi list members, I'm currently running Debian on a custom built desktop, and am looking to get, as a little something to complete the rig to desired specs, a sound card. Yes, I know the spiel... "Who needs a sound card in 2016?", or, "But onboard audio...!" My reason is for audio processing: I

GNOME woes on Debian lenny-stable (IBM ThinkPad T42)

Hi list, I am trying to help my dad with a strange problem with his GNOME setup on Debian lenny-stable. After having just installed the monodevelop packages from the repo and making sure dependencies were resolved, he had restarted his system, only to find that GNOME no longer brings up the

Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little memory refresher with. I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on bootup. I know there was a way of doing so, but I forgot (I'm a little rusty and need to not be rusty). Can someone tell me how to just boot

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com wrote: I do this by not having xdm, gdm or kdm installed and starting X with startx when required. So how can I disable gdm so it doesn't start automatically? --Rob -- Nobody's ever lost in life...they're merely taking

Switch from lenny-stable to squeeze-testing

Hi folks, I've just installed Debian lenny-stable onto my Asus Eee PC 10, and I'd like to switch over from stable to squeeze-testing in order to make use of more up to date apps and KDE 4.2. I remember that you have to add a new repo, or I believe point /etc/apt/sources.list to the testing repos,