Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

[Aryan Ameri <a.ameri@linuxiran.org>]

On Friday 28 March 2003 11:07, Ed Lawson wrote:
> Aryan Ameri wrote:
> >On Friday 28 March 2003 07:33, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> >>yes.  However the stable repository will most likely have older
> >>packages than what is in Knoppix.  S
> >
> >Well, KNOPPIX is a bloody mixture of srage/sid/potato/woody.
>
> My experience in shifting the apt sources to Debian was that Knoppix
> became a real pain and all the HW detection and automatic configuring of
> the system which Knoppix does very well indeed was lost.  I have not
> installed Morphix on a hard drive, but it might be cleaner while using
> the great Knoppix HW detection and config features.

Yeah, I have heard about this Morphix, and some suggest that it has a much 
cleaner designe that Knoppix, but I have heard that Morphix is still an 
infant project, and not mature enough.

What about Libranet? Has anyone tried installing Libranet, and the pointing 
the repository to Debain's repository and upgrade packages? Do you think it 
is doable?

Cheers

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Aryan Ameri