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SPLASH-SCREEN

• Make sure you make it with GIMP Creating with Photoshop and saving (in different formats) never worked for me. Even opening the Photoshop-image with GIMP and saving it afterwards was not good enough for GRUB.

• You can place the image everywhere. If you want to place it with the original grub-splashes, this is a good place: /usr/share/images/desktop-base.

•  Then edit /etc/default/grub. Add the line:

GRUB_BACKGROUND="your_image.jpg"

• Update GRUB

# update-grub2

GRUB-MENU

•  Create a file called /boot/grub/custom.cfg and add the lines:

set color_normal=light-black/black
set color_highlight=white/black

MENU-ENTRIES

Maybe you would like to change the menu entries:
Edit /etc/grub.d/10_linux
(You can find them starting with title=. I added LISA for this example)

linux_entry ()
{
  os="$1"
  version="$2"
  recovery="$3"
  args="$4"
  if ${recovery} ; then
    title="$(gettext_quoted "LISA %s, with Linux %s (recovery mode)")"
  else
    title="$(gettext_quoted "LISA %s, with Linux %s")"
  fi

And then when you reboot things may look like this:
(If you’re lucky)

REFERENCES

• Debian and GRUB
• TheGeekStuff

A simple walk-through

On the target machine:

• Net-install the same Debian-distro with Graphical User-Environment and SSH-Server
• Boot that the new installed Debian OS
• Install some tools:
  # apt-get install rsync parted htop xfsprogs
• If you feel like it: Make a separate /home – partition, mount it, and add it to you /etc/fstab
• Secure your fstab:
  # cp /etc/fstab /boot/_etc_fstab
• Start the SSH-Server:
  # /etc/init.d/ssh start
• Get the target IP:
  # ifconfig -a eth0

On the original machine:

• Go cloning:

  # rsync -aAXv --delete --progress --exclude={/boot/*,/dev/*,/mnt/*,/proc/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/run/*,/media/*,/lost+found} --rsh='ssh -p22' /* root@ip-target-machine:/

Go back to your target machine and copy back your fstab and reboot:

• Restore your fstab:
  # cp -f /boot/_etc_fstab /etc/fstab
• Reboot:
  # shutdown -r now

Have fun with your fresh Debian install!
Well fresh… “Your already configured Debian install”.

Don’t forget to re-install your VMware-Tools! Your GRUB may needs updating for some extra kernel-parameters.

Make it work

# apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
# apt-get install libpq-dev
cpan> install DBD::Pg
$ sudo su postgres -c psql template1 template1=# ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'password'; template1=# \q
$ sudo passwd -d postgres
$ sudo su postgres -c passwd
$ sudo su postgres -c psql < /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/adminpack.sql