I've installed the lastest Debian on a hard drive, with Gnome. Now I'd like to also install Debian on the same hard drive with KDE interface. The installer for Gnome insisted on taking over the whole hard drive for Gnome.

1. Can I use something like Parted Magic to reduce the size of the /home partition, make another partition or two for KDE, then:

2. Will the installer for Debian accept installing with KDE on less than the full hard drive ( without overwriting Gnome )?

The install that I'm presently using is: Debian 6.0.1a i386 Netinstall

Thank you
Dan

they are SEEN but won't read. and OF COURSE they are where I did MOST of my backup!

Thanks for the help folks, Sorry if this is a duplicate post.

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Error opening '/dev/sdd1': Permission denied
Failed to mount '/dev/sdd1': Permission denied
Please check '/dev/sdd1' and the ntfs-3g binary permissions,
and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged

Hi

While upgrading from lenny to squeeze, i followed the installation notes to the point where istall the new kernel image:

apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686

where I get the following error
..........
Running depmod.
Running /usr/sbin/yaird.
yaird error: Unknown option: k
(fatal)
/usr/sbin/yaird failed to create initrd image.
Failed to create initrd image.

... and the installation halts

I have tried removing the half installation with

dpkg -P linux-image-2.6.32-5-686
and
dpkg -P linux-image-2.6-686
and tried apt-get install again, but with the same result.

I am really lost here, as I am stuck with a half-upgraded system.

Any help will be appreciated

Sincerely,
Hans

I'm setting up LVM on top of software RAID on Debian, and it doesn't seem to want to work. When I get to the "installing GRUB" part, it fails to install, giving me no good info as to why. When I got into the console and chrooted to my root directory, it couldn't find /proc/processes when I ran "fdisk -l", and there are no /dev/sd*, /dev/hd*, or /dev/md* devices showing up.

My configuration is 3 software RAID 1 partitions, 1 of which is ext4 mapped to /boot, the other two which are physical volumes for LVM. On one of them, I split it into two groups, system and storage. The system group has two volumes, swap and root. Root is ext4 mapped to "/", swap is swap space.

I need help: I've been struggling with this for a while. Thanks!

i am absolutely new to Linux and Debian

i have installed debian via netinstall (latest version).
i have DEll LATITUDE C 600 LAPTOP.
ALL Debian Installed and in the end it installed

1=Graphical User Interface
2=laptop
3=additional system software.
now i restarted and it went to graphical options
Debian
and windows
i selected Debian

it showed a lot of text lines and then asked me >>>Login i gave my longin name and password
it then showed me no Graphical user interface or any window rather it showed me command prompt like thing
now how i get into Graphical user interface???
please help
should i write some command to get into Debian Graphical User interface???
why it is not going into windows like GUI environment rather it is DOS like environment.
please guide