Re: ????: Re: Knoppix 6 ?
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:45:08AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> * Manolis Mathioudakis <manmathiou@yahoo.gr> [060530 21:38]:
>
> > Also there will be an official debian live cd out soon. What do you think about that?
> > Why couldn't they just use knoppix instead?
>
> Talked the other day with one of the debian live guys. And basically he
> says, that there are three fundamental differences:
> 1. compressed image type: Knopix used cloop, d-l squashfs+unionfs.
Knoppix uses unionfs, too, and cloop should compile on other platforms
as well.
> 2. Hardware detection: Knoppix uses kudzu, d-l discover2 (to share
> work with the debian-installer people)
Is this a fundamental problem? Knoppix uses kudzu/hwsetup for getting
the system up and running. A harddisk-installer can use something
different.
> 3. Installation: Knoppix has the knoppix-hd installer, d-l want
> something debian-installer (or even better: with the graphical
> installer) based to reuse and share as much work as possible.
Yes, PLEASE make a debian-installer that really works well, and I'm
happily discarding the evil hack that is the current
"knoppix-installer"!
Maybe Ubuntu has one...
> And since they are interested in porting debian live to more
> architectures than i386, there isn't much in common (but the package
> selection perhaps).
So far, IMHO these are no big obstacles in using Knoppix as Debian live
installer, but I'm not trying to talk anyone into something. ;-)
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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