Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 11, 2005 03:40 AM
Here are my debian caveats:
Debian is pure free software so proprietary accelerated 3D video drivers don't come with the distro. If you don't want to mess with proprietary drivers then the quick/dirty/easy solution is find a cheap Matrox G400. It works fine with debian mga drivers (xfree86).
Install the 2.6 kernel-image package made for your processor (for games).
To fine tune your video card type this (as root) from console:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
To install packages from console use 'dselect' and/or 'tasksel'.
Edit your<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc/apt/sources.list to get some good repositories. (use nano the text editor).
Here are some good entries: --- deb <a href="ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/" title="debian.org">ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/</a debian.org> stable main contrib non-free deb <a href="http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/" title="debian.org">http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/</a debian.org> stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb <a href="http://security.debian.org/" title="debian.org">http://security.debian.org/</a debian.org> stable/updates main
# mplayer deb <a href="ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/" title="nerim.net">ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/</a nerim.net> stable main ---
For initial package installation I use 'tasksel' and 'dselect' to get started.
Use 'tasksel' to get the general machine you want:
Desktop environment Web server Print server DNS server File server Mail server SQL database
Use 'dselect' if you have to hand pick individual packages
After you have your desktop going use 'synaptic'.
Note: 'aptitude', 'dselect'. 'synaptic', 'tasksel', 'kpackage', etc. are just different frontends to the same thing.
For debian system configuration I use 'webmin' when possible.
Install 'webmin' and any of the webmin modules you might need.
Then point your browser to <a href="https://localhost:10000/" title="localhost">https://localhost:10000/</a localhost>
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Installing Debian (cheat sheet)
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 11, 2005 03:40 AMDebian is pure free software
so proprietary accelerated 3D video drivers don't come with the distro.
If you don't want to mess with proprietary drivers
then the quick/dirty/easy solution
is find a cheap Matrox G400.
It works fine with debian mga drivers (xfree86).
Install the 2.6 kernel-image package
made for your processor (for games).
To fine tune your video card type this (as root) from console:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
To install packages from console
use 'dselect' and/or 'tasksel'.
Edit your<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc/apt/sources.list to get some good repositories.
(use nano the text editor).
Here are some good entries:
---
deb <a href="ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/" title="debian.org">ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/</a debian.org> stable main contrib non-free
deb <a href="http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/" title="debian.org">http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/</a debian.org> stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb <a href="http://security.debian.org/" title="debian.org">http://security.debian.org/</a debian.org> stable/updates main
# mplayer
deb <a href="ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/" title="nerim.net">ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/</a nerim.net> stable main
---
For initial package installation
I use 'tasksel' and 'dselect' to get started.
Use 'tasksel'
to get the general machine you want:
Desktop environment
Web server
Print server DNS server
File server
Mail server
SQL database
Use 'dselect' if you have to hand pick
individual packages
After you have your desktop going
use 'synaptic'.
Note: 'aptitude', 'dselect'. 'synaptic', 'tasksel', 'kpackage', etc.
are just different frontends to the same thing.
For debian system configuration I use 'webmin' when possible.
Install 'webmin' and any of the webmin modules you might need.
Then point your browser to
<a href="https://localhost:10000/" title="localhost">https://localhost:10000/</a localhost>
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