Debian Tips & Tutorials

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++ [...]

This is a tutorial on how to setup 3 GNU/Linux distributions (triple boot) in a pen drive. Requirements: Pen drive with capacity 4GB or more Download Debian GNU/Linux Lenny Live (live.debian.net) Universal Operating System debian.org Clonezilla (http://clonezilla.org) Its for disk cloning BackTrack (http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html) A security distro Syslinux (Bootloader) apt-get install syslinux Gparted (Partition editor) apt-get [...]

I had a requirement to take the backup image of a Debian GNU/Linux server. So I planned to clone the hard disk in which the OS is installed. My first preference went to Clonezilla, a Free Software for disk/partition cloning. So I downloaded the clonezilla pen drive version. I have tried a lot to install [...]