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By default, debian doesn't come with many useful man pages for development. To install them, do:
# apt-get install manpages-dev
This kind of configuration must be done after using /etc/modprobe.d (see modprobe.d(5)) configuration files. However, if those files seem not to be read (even god don't know why), you can put the necessary instructions in the /etc/modules file.
See, for example, this workaround (like in this forum entry) to make elousb module be loaded before the usbhid module:
# We remove the usbhid module, add the elousb module and add the usbhid # module at last. -r usbhid elousb usbhid
To change default system locale, execute the following command, as root:
# dpkg-reconfigure locales
I recently modified the Debian Lenny installer to automated some install tasks. I modified the init script on the initrd to make what I wanted. In this script, I have full access to the busybox binary in /bin (an all the symlinks that point to it).
I then tried to mount a ext3 partition, but got an error:
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt failed: No such file or directory
I also tried to pass the -t ext3 flag:
# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt failed: No such device
Weird errors, because /dev/sda1 did exist. After some time wondering why it didn't work, I'd checked lsmod output and discovered that I didn't have ext3 module enabled. modprobe ext3 didn't find the module, because it was not in the initrd. I should have to put it there.
Fortunatelly, installed Debian and its CD's initrd used the same kernel, so I imagined I could use the ext3 module available as a .deb or .udeb on the Debian CD.
After mounting the Debian ISO, I cd'ed the pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6 directory where I found a file named ext3-modules-2.6.26-2-486-di_1.76lenny5_i386.udeb. Extracted it, and checked extracted files:
$ mkdir /tmp/tt $ dpkg -x ext3-modules-2.6.26-2-486-di_1.76lenny5_i386.udeb /tmp/tt $ find /tmp/tt /tmp/tt /tmp/tt/lib /tmp/tt/lib/modules /tmp/tt/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486 /tmp/tt/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486/kernel /tmp/tt/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486/kernel/fs /tmp/tt/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486/kernel/fs/ext3 /tmp/tt/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko /tmp/tt/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486/kernel/fs/jbd /tmp/tt/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486/kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko
ext3 is there. There is also a jbd module that is something related to journalling, a dependency for ext3. I had to install both.
Just merge the /lib tree to the initrd's /lib and created a new initrd and a new CD (to create a new initrd, check the Debian Automated Install page.
After booting, it still couldn't find the kernel, even after an explicit modprobe ext3. By diff'ing initrd modules.dep and system's modules.dep, I discovered initrd's /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486/modules.dep lacked a line that loaded ext3 module. So I added:
/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko: /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486/kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486/kernel/fs/mbcache.ko
And created a new initrd. The script, though, had to explicit call modprobe ext3 in order to make this module work. mount, therefore, worked fine.
If you are trying to run a 32-bit application in a 64-bit Debian or Ubuntu system, you may get errors like:
error while loading shared libraries: libXmu.so.6: cannot +open shared object file: No such file or directory
or like:
error while loading shared libraries: libXXX: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
According to this page, you need to install the ia32-libs package in order to have 32-bit libraries to run your 32-bit programs.
You have no sound. Sound tools (like mixers) say that /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer and /dev/sequencer don't exist. Solution: according to Debian SoundFAQ, install the oss-compat package.
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