Forum: Debian Linux

so, ive been meaning to try out debian. so i go to download the isos are there really 14 cds? isnt that kinda crazy? i guess its netinst...

ok this is really weird. before installing debian on my laptop i had ubuntu 5.10 on it, so to install the modem all i had to do was: download the...

Hi, I am trying to insatll Debian linux on a 4 year old laptop I downloaded and burnt a net install CD, all ok untill I found that my network...

Okay, I have Xandros Open Circulation Edition on my other hard drive (I'm currently using XP) and I have a question about setting up my Internet...

Ok I have a laptop with debain sarge 10.0 on it as well. I installed a package that depends on other packages that I cannot install. Ok no problem I...

I'd like sudo to timeout quickly, because I don't like the idea of giving normal users root access for ages. I edited my sudoers file thusly: ...

Is it normal to have this many gcc's at once? Package Installed Previous Now State gcc ...

Hi, Just dowloaded Debian Sarge 3.1 that I'm hopping to use as a server. I first downloaded the first cd (debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso) from the...

Ok, I noticed that most people who are having Grub Error 17 issues are dual booting. I on the other hand have a single Sarge install. Was running a...

hey all, I used Windows for Homebanking, but that's not so secure, like everyone knows. I can use Linux to do this job (in Inter Explorer via...

So far I have been unsuccessful getting my GeForce 6600 on my AMD64 system. When xserver starts it says in the log that no device was found (the...

At first, I've been trying to boot into my Windows XP partition and trying to solve that problem (as you can see here) but I found out that I...

I just installed Etch, and after I finished the installation and logged in, I tried running apt-get update, and I got this error. E: Dynamic MMap...

Hi, I'm something of a Linux newb, and I was wondering if anyone has been able to install Debian on on HP Pavilion zv6000 series notebook. I...

hey, my cursor lags after pressing on my keyboard....I can't see move my mouse for a short period , and it's very annoying, especially if I'm...

Hello i just installed debian 3.1 on my laptop, everything works just fine, but i can't get the usb memory to work, do i need to mount it?, and if...

Does anybody know if its possible to reinstall debain with SSH? if so how? Thank You!

Hi, I am having problems setting up an extra mail relay domain in an Exim configuration. My linux knowledge is very minimal, and after looking...

Recently we had to take down the e-mail server for maintainace, our frontend server which runs horde was stuck with a mail queue with over 19000...

I recently made a copy of the Debian based security distro "Operator" I love the distro and everything seems to work alright except it refuses to...