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THE DEBIAN TUTORIAL IS LOCATED HERE
SaddleTramp wrote:Ok, I assume you set your root partition to "Boot" since you're using the whole drive...
SaddleTramp wrote:I will be installing into a partition (sdb6), I will not be installing Grub (I'm just going to add Debian to my existing Grub), so I'm assuming (again LOL) that I don't need to set sdb6 to "Boot"...
If you install the boot loader in the root partition of a Linux it becomes "chainloadable", meaning you can boot it as a Windows by another boot loader.
Therefore the easiest life in dual boot a Debian and a Slackware is to install the boot loader of Debian in the MBR and the one in Slackware in its root partition.
If the root of Slackware is sda6 then it will be bootable by Debian's Grub by these lines in its menu.lst
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Slackware in sda6 known to Grub as (hd0,5)
root (hd0,5)
chainloader +1
The same technique can be used from the 3rd to 200th Linux if you have enough hard disks.
SaddleTramp wrote:New problem: I can't get internet connection (yet)...I'm using an Alltel UTStarcom (Pantech) UM150 USB Wireless Dongle (it's not a Broadband Wireless device like some think, it's like hooking your mobile phone to your PC and getting internet that way, except this is an USB Dongle)...in Ultimate, the Network Manager automatically picks it up as a "Mobile Broadband CDMA" device...Working on how to get this setup in Debian...
SaddleTramp wrote:The best Grub (he also has SuperGrub) reference I've found...
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#2_
hermanzone says: 17: Cannot mount selected partition
This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.
hermanzone says: 2: Bad file or directory type
This error is returned if a file requested is not a regular file, but something like a symbolic link, directory, or FIFO.
SaddleTramp wrote:Since your running in VM, maybe it has something to do that Debian is really not using it's drivers (my understanding), it's all going thru the windows drivers and that could be a problem with some things working like they're suppose to...
SaddleTramp wrote:Thanks for the info up there...no problem d'lng the DVD...gotta do whatcha gotta do LOL
su -
apt-cdrom add -a
pch.shot wrote:Nice job on the guide, Drama. Very complete.
drama@debian:~$ top
top - 14:17:01 up 1:27, 2 users, load average: 0.52, 0.48, 0.33
Tasks: 81 total, 2 running, 79 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 10.0%us, 3.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 87.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1490164k total, 314124k used, 1176040k free, 15628k buffers
Swap: 979924k total, 0k used, 979924k free, 115532k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2792 drama 20 0 213m 100m 21m S 22.0 6.9 21:58.72 firefox-bin
2551 root 20 0 175m 25m 9048 S 7.3 1.8 6:41.36 Xorg
2968 drama 20 0 39812 21m 13m S 2.7 1.5 0:15.92 gnome-system-mo
2972 drama 20 0 47736 15m 10m R 0.7 1.1 0:00.22 gnome-terminal
1 root 20 0 2132 720 624 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.54 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.42 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.36 events/0
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
39 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.18 kblockd/0
41 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.38 kacpid
42 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
114 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
151 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
152 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 pdflush
153 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
154 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
593 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd
594 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
623 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khpsbpkt
695 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 knodemgrd_0
699 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
700 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux
786 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
787 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 usb-storage
789 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
790 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.54 usb-storage
997 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 kjournald
1073 root 16 -4 2324 808 496 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.16 udevd
1596 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused
1858 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
1912 daemon 20 0 1924 520 424 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 portmap
1923 statd 20 0 1988 748 644 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 rpc.statd
2127 root 20 0 27448 1496 988 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 rsyslogd
2141 root 20 0 1800 648 556 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 acpid
2151 messageb 20 0 2800 1140 764 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.04 dbus-daemon
2419 Debian-e 20 0 6412 960 640 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 exim4
2438 root 20 0 3304 512 364 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 famd
2449 haldaemo 20 0 5524 3508 2876 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.26 hald
2450 root 20 0 3296 1064 904 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 hald-runner
2484 root 20 0 3364 1028 908 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.32 hald-addon-inpu
2492 haldaemo 20 0 2304 912 784 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 hald-addon-acpi
2493 root 20 0 3364 1024 904 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.72 hald-addon-stor
2500 root 20 0 3364 1020 904 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.16 hald-addon-stor
2502 root 20 0 3364 1024 904 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.16 hald-addon-stor
stanca wrote:I'm just waiting for the configuration part of the new installed system.
SaddleTramp wrote:I've got half of the DVD I need d'led so far...have to go to birthday party in a few minutes but I'll be leaving this system up & hopefully have a complete d'l when I get back...then I'll see if I can get connected to the internet back in Debian...
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