Re: [debian-knoppix] Installer questions/request
Hi anonymous coward,
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 19:22:45 -0400, lists1 wrote:
> Knoppix is great!
>
> The current installer is not...
Feel free to improve it. I wrote knx-hdinstall to get a _quick_ install
of all software included in Knoppix, not as a general Debian installer.
> Dumping everything into / may be easy for veterans to fix, but it isn't
> working for me. Three attempts, no joy.
Get a minimal clue how Knoppix is built. Everything is _preinstalled_ on the
CD. So there are no separate packages for the installer and
dpkg-repack'ing them first just to install only a few of them takes
extra hard disk space and is very slooow.
> Any chance the next version of the installer will put files into the correct
> partitions/directories instead of dumping them in / ?
Read /usr/local/bin/knx-hdinstall, it's a shell script. I won't include
any features in the near future, because my time is very limited and
Fabian is working on a rewrite.
BTW, with moderate Linux knowledge it is easy to move /home, /var and
such to separate partitions after installing.
> Also, contrary to what I've read, ReiserFS is NOT supported. It is supported
Bullshit. ReiserFS is supported since knx-hdinstall 0.35 (which was
relesed in december 2002).
> if the disk is partitioned and ReiserFS is installed prior to the Knoppix
> installer/partitioning, but there is no ReiserFS file system option in the
> Knoppix install script as late as the 5/20 version of Knoppix.
I didn't remove support for ReiserFS. Has Klaus changed this?
I don't have the time to check each and every release of Knoppix.
Knoppix 3.2 2003-05-03 definitely _has_ ReiserFS support in the
installer.
bye,
Chris
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