Anant Shrivastava : Techno Enthusiast

so lets begin with the installation

Recently i have upgraded my internet connection from 64Kbps to huge 256Kbps (although it doesn’t sounds too much but guess what for a person working on 64Kbps for 2yrs this is a 400% increment. )

with this change in my side i thought ok lets download the net-install disk and start the magic….

The start was a surprise for me with option selection menu with option for GUI installation..

but the surprise went of the hook when my motherboard(intel 865 chipset ) onboard Graphics was not auto detected and fail back text installer was started

but anyways i can live up with CLI interface too..

so i moved ahead and a simple installation for debian took less then 20 minutes to fiish..

now i can say that besides the minor glitch in hardware detection it was a breeze..

Note : i am not covering much on installation as that is not my prime concern …

Now as the installation got over logged in to the system and went to aptitude for some softwares

Here i would like to point out the best thing i like about aptitude or any package manager in debian TASK’s

simple links to get the a perticular setup done

So i head to aptitude ans task panel a quick “+” over desktop, Laptop, Gnome, Localization Hindi) and Webserver.

two taps on “g” and i am ready to go for a good night sleep in the mean time all the packages will be downloaded and installed automatically……. (size of over 972MB)

its been a long time since i posted on my blog..

Been hell lot busy on my work… but guess what as soon as i got some time i get this simply superb news…

Debian 5.0 lenny is out i have been eying for this distro for a long time using the unstable repos to get the taste of lenny and now finally lenny is here..

so today onewards atleast one post on how i am setting up ebian lenny on my desktop..

my configuration is as followes..

Celeron 2.6 GHz processor

256 + 512 = 768MB RAM

160 GB PATA HDD

Samsung Studiowork 700S 17″

thats the basic setup but the main part will be to configure and use

BlueSoliel IVT bluetooth dongle..

Nokia 3120 Classic or USB cable as well as BlueTooth

With This i might also be able to workout on my long lasting ambition to document wine configuration and electronics workbench configuration.

So Stay Tuned …

Next post on Installation

1) vi is not working as expected, then please use vim, also if you wish to have context highlighting then remove “vim-tiny” and install “vim” and uncomment “syntax on” from /etc/vim/vimrc.

2) if you install wine the instead of trying to setup the environment on your own try wine-doors. (wine-tools is also a good tool but is now getting older and is unmaintained now also it seems to break a lot.)

3) you can try ies4linux to install ie6 its better then any thing.

4) to install MSI installer based apps use “msiexec /i”

5) to get color coded listing in shell uncomment the following line or add the following line in ~/.bashrc

alias ls=’ls –color=auto’
alias dir=’ls –color=auto –format=vertical’
alias vdir=’ls –color=auto –format=long’

6) if you try to unmount any device and its says device busy. then you have two options

a) umount -l <device_name>

b) for the second option you can check here

more tips to follow soon…………