I use Debian a Jesse for the demonstrations on this course.
The latest version of Debian may respond slightly differently to my demonstrations.
If you choose to install the latest version of Debian that's up to you and Debian comes in both 32 and
64 bit versions.
One easy way to try is to use the Debian Live-CD which you can just insert into your laptop or computer
and then boot off.
If not quite sure how to use live operating systems there is a section on the course which teaches you
how to use live operating systems.
Essentially you just need to put it into your machine and boot off the CD along with your BIOS allows
you to boot from that CD.
You can also put the IRS into the equivalent of the CD on your virtual machine and boot from it so you
can without installing it onto a virtual machine you can boot Debian and hey you can download the live
CD so you can see there's a 64 bit version 32 version.
You get the ISO files there.
You can also get the full version to install.
Just go here and download the relevant version 64 bit or the 32 bit versions.
If you're going to use Debian in your test environment using a virtual machine and in particular with
virtual box you might have trouble installing the guest additions with Debian 8.
I couldn't get it to work straight away with a full install with the live version and with S-box version
so this is the fix that I used in order to install the Virtual Box guest additions so I could use it
within virtual box.
It's not too difficult.
You need to make sure the guest edition CD is mounted so you can go to the menu option input device
and install guest additions CD image.
That should put the CD in the drive of the virtual machine and if we have a look at the CD
there's a CD and we need to run this command here
and you'll see what happens when we run this well.
First we need administrative privileges.
Sudo is not installed.
We could try to install that but we'll get an error.
So I mean su to root.
Is try again
and then we get some errors here telling us that the guest edition module is actually failed so we're
going to make some changes to make sure that guest edition is installed.
Apologies for the small size.
The reason the size is small is because guest additions isn't installed.
We need to edit the sources list so you can use vi or git it or whatever editor that you like to use.
These are the repository links where apt get and aptitude package management tools use in order to locate
and download packages.
These are currently not set up correctly so we need to change these.
We don't want the CD to be active so that needs to be changed it isn't we don't want it to be looking
for a install CD.
We can add these the common
copies
paste them there and then edit these
they won't need to be Jesse main save those or save this you want to do an apt get update
and want to install a number of packages.
So that's pseudo.
Technically we don't need that for this but it's just useful and Katie pseudo But the package is we
do need our GCC Cadia mass x x and x x or call
so that's installed all of the packages that we needed.
So we can try running the command to install it from the CD
and then we know it's installed successfully.
You may get an error message saying that you cannot run that file from the CD so you may have to edit
the FS tab file using your favorite editor at the first tab.
And here you can replace this with exec.
If you getting an error message about the CD-ROM not allowing you to execute the VB box.
Linux edition is not room file.
And finish by running at day and apt get dist upgrade.
An out of date system and you should be good to go.
And here we are full screen with guest editions working just fine.
There are some books that you couldn't get.
Check this link here for a list of books on Debian.
Some of them are free and available online.
This one in particular is quite good.
That's free.
Available online.
This is also free and available online.
So check those out in the demonstrations I show.
I use the Gnome environment gnome desktop environment.
If you're choosing what desktop environment to use when you install Debian.