Debian Tutorials

Debian Tutorials

Step by step tutorials showing you how to install and configure various applications and services on Debian based Linux distros.

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How to set up a web server (LAMP) on Debian 9 (str...

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Ástþór IP on 8th April 2018

In this tutorial we’ll install the Debian Linux 9 (squeeze), Apache 2 with mpm-itk (to run each web as a isolated user),...

Virtualization

How to install open-vm-tools (Open Virtual Machine...

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Ástþór IP on 27th March 2018

VMware recommends using open-vm-tools instead of VMware tools as outlined in this article. The benefits of using open-vm-tools...

Using more than 4 GB RAM on Debian etch 32bit

By default Debian etch 32bit allows a maximum of 4 GB RAM. The limit can be raised up to 64 GB with a single apt-get command / kerenl update:

apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem

That’s it, reboot your system and you will be able to install up to 64GB of RAM to your system.

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Posted on May 25, 2009

samrat

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i did exactly what u said but my network card doesn’t recognize in new kernel .
Posted on May 25, 2009

aip

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Hello samrat

I have tested this with a few boxes and never had any hardware issues.

What type of network card is installed? Could you post the output of “ifconfig -a” ?
Posted on January 9, 2014

jimbob

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how do i know if it worked?