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 [...]

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++ [...]

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.

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 [...]