Debian wheezy - The new testing release from debian had some issues while getting installed on my machine va USB .
First I downloaded the weekly snapshot and made it bootable on USB using the tool unebootin . I regularly use unetbootin and it works most of the times but this time something did go wrong!
First I downloaded the weekly snapshot and made it bootable on USB using the tool unebootin . I regularly use unetbootin and it works most of the times but this time something did go wrong!
- After loading installer components and when installing base system is already done . The installer complains that there is no CD ROM present .
Note that this is happening midway of installation and it stops saying that it couldn't install busy box . Mounting USB and installing busybox manually didn't help me continue with the installation as the installer step has completely failed and there is no way I could resume but have to go to previous step or net step(with warnings)
Tried somethings like
- Mounting USB as CDROM
- Changing sources.list to directly read from mounted USB folder - This one works nicely with apt-get install busybox
- Packages cant be verified . press Y to continue !!!
How the hell can I press Y when the script is not asking me for inputs and yeah the script is not run with skip package verification issue and I am in no mood to modify it .
My solution was to just install all packages using aptitude - the CUI package management tool . Funny it sounds but that day I was forced to learn aptitude CUI tool which I always avoided . I do run aptitude search and aptitude install but never standalone aptitude .
So I installed all the packages from CD 1 and continued to the step where grub was installed but importantly there is a step where installer would create user accounts . After that I finished installation and rebooted .
Hurray there was a login screen but my happiness was short lived as my Nvidia ethernet was not detected , I didn't have a X server installed !! I tried searching for as many packages available on USB but never found xserver-xorg or the drivers for my Nvidia graphic card .
Now I booted via linux mint live to only learn that my live disk was 32 bit and my installed system was 64 bit and I can't chroot into it . I searched a lot for mini 64 bit live distros and finally found a nice one called GRML . Its a debian based live distribution aimed at sysadmins and most importantly comes with a 64 bit version with less space .
After some consecutive reboots installed all the drivers xserver etc . Gnome3 did misbehave and it was because of my Nvidia driver which I thought was installed with the package . But I was mistaken and yeah for the first time downloaded the proprietary version and installed it as instructed in debian wiki .

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