[debian-knoppix] flakey installation issue

[Alan Davis <adavis@saipan.com>]

Are there any issues with reiserfs?  I would like to hear whether anyone
else has been noticing something like what's happened to me...

I installed knoppix 3.3 about a month ago on a new machine, using the
same old HDDs (80GB and 30GB), from what was a really recent"release" at
that time.  I had found with Knoppix 3.2 that it wasn't possible to
create and install on an ext3 partition, so I used reiserfs, which
seemed to work fine on three machines using cluster knoppix, so I tried
it here on my home machine. 

I have found, one at a time, that several packages have missing files.
Or else aren't recognized as being installed (undoubtedly because files
are missing).  For example, today, a month after installing, I tried to
spell check a file, and ispell wasn't seen by emacs.  I don't know
whether this is something recent, because I haven't been writing a lot
for a couple of weeks.  

Thanks for any suggestions.  Perhaps I ought to install using the new
debian installer?  I use knoppix because it works really well out of the
box.  I am not an experienced sysop, so it's much easier when someone
has configured a system to run X servers across the network.  Beside,
knoppix has GREAT hardware recognition.

Alan Davis


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