Debian Tips & Tutorials

How to reinstall GRUB? Note: before continuing read this post if you are not familiar with GNU/Linux http://debian.sreenadh.in/mount-partitions-in-a-gnulinux-system/ Put the first DVD of Debian in DVD drive.  After booting from DVD you will be asked to choose language, country, keyboard layout. you need to press 3 enter keys for that process. Press Ctrl Alt F2 [...]

A few days back I have got a laptop from one of my friend. Since I don’t have another pc other than my desktop my plan was to use this laptop for doing experiments. So I decided to install Debian GNU/Linux Lenny to test LTSP5. But the optical drive of lap was not working. My [...]

In this tutorial we can see how to compile and build the binary package of Linux kernel. The advantage of creating binary package is that you can install the kernel on multiple machines instead of compiling kernel in each and every machine. The kernel used is 2.6.28. Prerequisites: apt-get install libncurses5-dev gcc make linux-headers-`uname -r` g++ [...]

Debian GNU/Linux Lenny released on 14th February. It comes with more than 25000 Free Software applications. In this post we can see how we can upgrade the existing installations of Debian Etch 4.0 (IT@School GNU/Linux 3.2/3.0) to Lenny. First of all open terminal application. I use Konsole. Switch to super user (root).

The following tutorial will help you to learn how to mount partitions in a GNU/Linux system. First step is to create a mount point. A mount point can be any directory. Usually the directory should be empty. Otherwise after mounting you won’t be able to access the contents of that directory.