Debian live image

2016-06-29 Thread Nikhil Prakash
I am new to GNU/linux and want to start with debian. Can you provide me a detailed description on how to install and boot debian live using USB?

Re: Debian changes active partition?

2011-07-08 Thread nikhil jain
Your subject is pretty much correct. When grub (I'm assuming you have grub installed) is not installed into the MBR, the installer marks the boot partition (well, the one where you did install grub) as active because it will not load otherwise. But that should not make your system unboo

Debian changes active partition?

2011-07-08 Thread nikhil jain
I don't know if its just my screwed up system or debian, but this has happened twice now. Installed debian once with the w32 installer and once with the normal installer. Both times I chose not to install the MBR. Upon rebooting I found my system unbootable. To fix it I had to boot with hir

creating a preseed file

2011-07-08 Thread nikhil jain
1. I came across debconf-get-selections , a tool that helps to create unattended installs preseed.cfg file. Is there something like this for debian that would run under windows ? I don't have a debian system yet. 2.Instead of creating a complete preseed.cfg file , can I just add a few line

Re: A smaller iso

2011-07-08 Thread nikhil jain
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:55:07 +0530, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 08 iul 11, 06:46:13, nikhil jain wrote: [snip problem already solved] Most importantly I want the installer to have the option to install the bootloader to the partition itself and not the MBR. when I tried w32 installer it

Re: A smaller iso

2011-07-08 Thread nikhil jain
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:37:15 +0530, Mahesh T Pai wrote: I guess you are using the DVD image - try the CD image. Have a look at http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ Thanks. I guess this will be perfect for me? http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.2.1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-kde-C

Re: A smaller iso

2011-07-08 Thread nikhil jain
I don't understand what do you mean with "install the bootloader to the partition itself" a bootloader can only sit in the MBR to be useful. Basically I want to install linux as desribed here: http://www.frihost.com/forums/vt-33598.html While installing linux, make sure you install the b

A smaller iso

2011-07-07 Thread nikhil jain
the 4.4 gb is too big for my internet connection(512kbps) . I am looking for something ubuntu-like complete 500mb-2gb debian iso (why not use ubuntu? because its buggy buggy buggy) I want to avoid the net installer , because my slow connection and the weird debian installer makes it a roya

w32 installer giving hal.dll not found error

2011-07-07 Thread nikhil jain
I am trying to install debian with the w32 installer.But upon rebooting it gives me a hal.dll not found error. The exact message is something like: could not load hal.dll from /system 32/hall.dll Here is how my partition table look like: http://i.imgur.com/E1Hby.jpg Any help? Thanks Also do

Printing gibberish...

2007-03-04 Thread Nikhil Nair
aded. I'd very much appreciate any help, as this is getting a bit frustrating. Oh, BTW, I tried turning off the printer and looking at the file under /var/spool/lpd/lp; it was fine at that point, no garbling evident. Cheers, Nikhil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Base printer package

2007-03-02 Thread Nikhil Nair
loaded automatically. I could add lp to /etc/modules, but suspect I'm missing a basic printer package which is supposed to take care of this by putting something in /etc/modprobe.d/. Does anyone happen to know? Thanks, Nikhil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Audio: OSS emulation issues

2007-02-27 Thread Nikhil Nair
ea how to go about submitting a bug report for this, as it's not obvious which package has the bug. They'll want to fix it for the release of etch, though, I should think. Cheers, Nikhil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Audio: OSS emulation issues

2007-02-27 Thread Nikhil Nair
ll, here? Should I just add the 3 snd-*-oss modules to /etc/modules? Cheers, Nikhil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Audio: OSS emulation issues

2007-02-27 Thread Nikhil Nair
se it got in the way. I then rebooted, and the situation seems exactly the same: no /dev/dsp, no *oss modules loaded, flite breaks horribly. Is all this documented? - I notice I probably should have known about alsaconf, but din't. Cheers, Nikhil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Audio: OSS emulation issues

2007-02-27 Thread Nikhil Nair
presume this doesn't work with udev mounted on /dev, or at least would need to be redone at every reboot). Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this set up properly? Or, indeed, does Debian have one of its usual neat and automatic setup tricks for this, and have I just

Re: static IP

2007-02-27 Thread Nikhil Nair
the outgoing stuff; probably it's already doing the latter, but not the former, and for that you'll need to set up the appropriate firewall rule in the router. I'm no expert on this stuff,but I hope this may have been of some help. Cheers, Nikhil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Wine error

2006-01-19 Thread Nikhil Prabhakar
olution on http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~scs49/install_linux.html#destHeader164 I tried to play around to see if it solves the problem.Problem was solved but one day wine failed to behave as required and produced errors.I was wondering if it was because of upgrading wine which I had done. Regards Nikhil Prabhakar

Wine error

2006-01-19 Thread Nikhil Prabhakar
----- I'm using Debian Sarge 3.1 with kernel 2.6.15. Thanks in advance. Regards Nikhil Prabhakar

apt-get error

2006-01-11 Thread Nikhil Prabhakar
s/kdemultimedia-kio-plugins_4%3a3.5.0-3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) - Thanks in advance. Regards Nikhil Prabhakar

httrack query

2006-01-05 Thread Nikhil Prabhakar
using HTTrack! - Regards Nikhil Prabhakar

Query about creating link on desktop

2006-01-03 Thread Nikhil Prabhakar
nd "Browse Folder" option.What explains this behaviour? Regards Nikhil

broken dependencies

2005-12-22 Thread Nikhil Prabhakar
Hi, Recently I tried to upgrade KDE from unstable repositories and faced with multiple broken dependencies.Is there any way out to handle this situation (hoping there is :-)? Regards Nikhil Prabhakar

W: GPG error:

2005-12-22 Thread Nikhil Prabhakar
NO_PUBKEY EA8E8B2116BA136C W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems Regards Nikhil Prabhakar

strange behaviour

2005-12-21 Thread Nikhil Prabhakar
Hi, I created a link on my GNOME desktop and when I tried to select a custom icon,icon did not change.What could be the problem? Regards Nikhil

Re: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

2005-12-20 Thread Nikhil Prabhakar
Hi, On 12/20/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikhil Prabhakar wrote: > > >Hi all, > >When opening emacs from terminal as "su" I'm getting this error: > > > >debian:/home/nipra# emacs > >Xlib: connection to ":0.0" re

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

2005-12-20 Thread Nikhil Prabhakar
lso use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit connections from your machine. While opening as normal user it works fine and with "su -" emacs open up in terminal itself. Regards Nikhil Prabhakar

Help abt playing file over MODEM

2004-10-11 Thread Nikhil Bhavsar
Hi , I am Nikhil Bhavsar. I am a student studying in final Year OF my computer engineering.. I am working on a project which deals with , TAPI telephony card I want to do: - have the modem dial some (voice) number - keep the line open even when answered by a human - then play some sound

Installation problem for a new user

2001-04-01 Thread Nikhil Khedkar
I get many card options for my card(SiS 6326).How do I know which one is mine? Regards, Nikhil _ Get a free @mschumacher.com email address ---> http://www.mschumacher.com

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Re: slink PPP hangup problem

1999-01-09 Thread Nikhil
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slink PPP hangup problem

1999-01-06 Thread Nikhil
n't hangup when i execute /usr/bin/poff and I am forced to reboot the box. Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? Thanks in advance, Nikhil