Re: Debian changes active partition?

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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