Debian zu Ende

When using Debian, if you are using Gnome or GDM display manager, and you want to upgrade for instance from Etch to Lenny, it can be a good idea to stop GDM and go into text only mode or you can ruin your entire system. Here is how to do it:

# /etc/init.d/gdm stop
# /etc/init.d/xdm stop

After everything is gestopt, enter:

# sudo nano (or your text editor) /etc/apt/sources.list

…and change all instances of Etch to Lenny. Then do:

# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

After restarting everything should be okay. Do not underestimate this little published problem of not stopping GDM first. If you dont stop GDM you can get an error when booting into the Display Manager that says:

“Error: Greeting failed, looking for other greeting. Your computer is now kaput, change to a different distro. Debian is not for you.”

Gparted Lesson

When using Gparted, this fucking program duz nicht komm mit gut instruktion. This gottverdamnt partition manager will do exactly what it says, but if you resize a partition, for instance a fucking ext3 file system on its own partition, the gottverdamnt thingie will nicht auto-resize. So:

#sudo apt-get install ext2resize

This is a fucking file system resizer. We Amish know a lot about ext3 filesystems. While Gparted can be used from a live-disk like puppylinux to resize a partion, Sie mussen einstiegen runlevel 1 (Debian).

#telinit 1

Now, unmount the drive or partition:

umount /dev/sda1 (or whatever the drive name is)

#ext2resize /dev/sda1 (amount in MB how much to resize file system for instance: 377548MB typed with the MB flush to the numbers)

Now remount:

#mount /dev/sda1

Und das ist zu ende von scene zwei…

The Case of the Mysterious Fstab File

I am like fuck! Fickt diese shiesse! My CDrom will nicht geoffnet and my cd is in there spinning like Debian’s logo of a spiral. Open es!

As root:
#umount /cdrom

Now it can be ejected. It is an issue of administrative permission. To change permissions andmake Cdrom world writable:

#chmod 777 /cdrom

To make the device itself so:

#chmod 666 /dev/hda (or whatever your cdrom device is named as “hdc” for instance instead of “hda”. This is important for shielding the cdrom against Satan, hence the “chmod 666″, this changes unholy permissions. ) I have to go churn some butter now and milk the cows. Martha, bring my laptop! And be sure to edit the fstab file in

/etc/fstab

…by insterting teh following line or modifying an existing similar line:

/dev/hda /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0

so geil…

Mein gott, this Java-JRE sheisse will not install on debian!

So, you are sick of downloading zat Java sun shit eh? It not working in Debian. Add this to your respositories, changing the name from etch if you have some different version:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free

#apt-get update

now:

#apt-get install java-package

Viola! No manual downloading. Now it’s possible to install programs like IPLIST in Debian.

How do I set Fucking Keyboard Map Gott Verdamnt!

It is like whipping the horse on a cold day:

#setxkbmap us

We be US amish!

Linax Varzun and # cat /etc/issue

What fucking version of Linux is this?

# uname -a

und

# cat /etc/issue

TeIinit

To go into runlevel 1  (DEBIAN mit no graphic desktop only text), type you:

#telinit 1

Und graphic desktop ist kaput, ja! Jetz, zu go back, just type you:

#telinit 3

Graphic desktop has returned! Yay!

Macht Mein XDM

How kann ich macht es so Fluxbox starts instead of going into runlevel 3? Einfach:

apt-get install XDM

For zee geil Debian user, es ist so gut. Jezt, haben zee ein login screen.

Set Ye Zeit

For setting yea zeit, it is gut to learn by the position of the sun or moon zee korrect zeit. If zat fails ye, fragen ein tourizt for zee “time” from their watch, then enter du auf root mode:

#date -s (and zee exact zeit here that du learnen from tourizt)

So einfach, ja!

Eterm Opaque, Ja

Very einfach way ye change transparency und opacity en Eterm windows, ja:

#Eterm -O –shade (number between 0 and 100, around 60 or 70 is good)