Editing Mika/Notes/Computer Stuff/Debian Installation/X220 (section)

=MISC=

* Setting up sudo

Use visudo, which checks for errors.

* Setting the history size
<blockquote>
echo $HISTSIZE (to check the current size)

export HISTSIZE=2000 (or however big they need to be)
</blockquote>
* Set up ibus for Japanese input
<blockquote>
install ibus and ibus-anthy

install ttf-(japanese fonts): this installs japanese fonts for the system
</blockquote>
* iceweasel

set up keyword shortcuts

addons for noscript and https-everywhere

right-click in text boxes and click on "Add dictionary" and add English dictionary for automatic spell check.


* dist-upgrade to testing

* can't mount usb

Error message:

<blockquote>
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so 
</blockquote>

Solution: comment out /dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0

Somehow, /etc/sdb was set to CDROM. One, I don't even have a CD drive and two, that's not usually when cdrom should be set to.