Questions tagged [debian-cd]
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Debian live install screwed display [closed]
I just downloaded Debian 9.7 unofficial livecd (for non-free drivers)and burned it on a usb drive.
When I try to launch the installer (graphical or text), the display is really ugly (see pic).
Same ...
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Configuring live-boot and live-config on debian
I'm trying to build a custom debian live CD using Will Haley's article with xfce4 and lightdm as a graphical desktop environment and calamares as a default installer but i can't set the live CD auto ...
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Is ISOLINUX on DebianStretchDVD1ISO extensible in any way without remastering - what can you do with it besides boot /install.amd/vmlinuz?
GRUB on USB/Hard Disk is extensible in the sense that once you install to MBR/partition you can mount ISO using loop and boot of the ISO. Additionally it has many modules like ls and cat that are ...
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Why am I not able to insmod or run any GRUB commands from a Debian Stretch DVD?
I can only run the rescue, install, graphical install, and so on with boot parameters. I am not able to insmod ls or echo and I can't change/edit the initrd to some-other-file.
What is it about this ...
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Debian equivalent to Ubuntu server
I am trying to install Debian 9.5 on my company's server. Problem ! I can't install it without the GUI (I don't need it and I don't want it to be there).
I tried all this .iso and the installation ...
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Is it still possible to install Debian 5 in 2018?
I would like to install Debian 5 on an older PC, because I expect that the kernel of Debian 5 would work better on this computer.
I downloaded the netinstall ISO from debian.org and I tried to ...
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Which files are involved in EFI boot sequence from a Usb dongle? (32/64 arch problem)
First to cut trough XY problem regarding this question, I'm trying to start a 64 bits machine from USB where the EFI is only 32 bits compatible, which is a Lenovo Ideapad 100S.
When I boot on full 32 ...
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Debian LiveUSB created with `Rufus` (windows) works but not when created with `dd`
I am trying to create a bootable USB using the hybrid iso image of debian from
https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/9.3.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/
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Minimal BASH-like supported… after installing Debian. How to proceed now?
I just installed Debian Stretch from a live USB. I left the installation do all the partition and such automatically. But I reboot to a black screen that says:
Minimal BASH-like line editing is ...
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Debian laptop installation fails due to debootstrap error “Failed to determine the codename for the release” at “Install the base system”
So I'm trying to install Debian 9.0 to my laptop (UEFI) via DVD and everything worked fine except that the mousepad doesn't work (yet?) and that I'm getting this error:
Debootstrap error
Failed ...
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How to install Debian with full disk encryption for UEFI?
So I'm trying to install the latest version of Debian on my SSD drive with UEFI. I'd like to use the CinnamonKDE desktop environment and have my drive fully encrypted.
I used Windows 10 before and am ...
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Debian installation USB boots to GRUBv2 rather than GUI
I have downloaded the Debian 8 AMD x64 iso and have attempted to make a bootable USB using Rufus on my PC and I have also tried this using UNetbootin on Ubuntu.
I was expecting a graphical user ...
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How do you create a Linux ISO? (Debian fork)
I did see this question on other threads - but I'm going to be a bit more specific.
Let's say I would like to take the Debian base (stable) and then rename it and add some own repos (and packages). ...
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How to install DVD 2 and 3 of debian?
There are 3 DVDs of debian on this page after installing first by usb stick installation how to install 2nd and 3rd DVDs?
I want to install all the packages at once so that I do not need to go back ...
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“ERROR: missing required packages from profile myprofile” when building a simple cd
I'm using simple-cdd to create a Debian cd with only the packages I need for a re/installation of my system, but I'm facing some difficulties, namely, of the list of packages that I want to be ...
