Re: Traditional Install or Knoppix?
I installed via Knoppix. Things went smoothly and I have had no
problems with the apt-get upgrade process.
However....
There are *situations* to think about:
- By default the install goes into a single partition. There are
howtos to get the /home directories onto another partition, but that
is the default.
- By default the user that is installed is named 'knoppix' again there
are howtos to install with a different user.
- once installed vs running from the cd, knoppix loses all of its
unique hardware detection capabilities.
- knoppix installs alot of packages that a typical user - especially a
newbie doesn't need
Within the situations described, I am pleased with the install. It was
very quick and easy and does give a user a very workable system.
Cheers,
Lou Losee
* Darryl Barlow <darrylb@iprimus.com.au> [2003-08-17 06:02]:
> Hershel,
>
> I haven't tried Knoppix to Debian myself, though I have seen a number of
> relevant posts. Apparently Knoppix is basically Debian unstable. Depending
> on exactly what the differences are, it may be possible to simply update the
> sources and do an apt-get upgrade to go to Debian unstable. I saw one post
> from someone who tried this and managed to break their KDE, and am mainly
> interested in whether others have tried this more succesfully. I'm not
> familiar enough with Knoppix to know what changes have been made and what may
> go wrong.
>
> regards,
>
> Darryl
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 07:14 pm, you wrote:
> > Darryl, I am a newbie newbie about to install Debian for the very first
> > time on a Celeron machine. I have Knoppix (from last week) and it runs on
> > my P III. I have no great interest in investing a lot of time playing with
> > the installation of Debian. How does this Knoppix to Debian work? You just
> > install Knoppix (with all of its auto-detection for x86 architecture) and
> > then upgrade to whichever Debian you want?
> >
> > I am watching the list for responses, but you say that this has worked in
> > the past for you.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Hershel Robinson
> > Jerusalem, Israel
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Darryl Barlow [mailto:darrylb@iprimus.com.au]
> > > Sent: Sun, August 17, 2003 4:30
> > > To: debian users
> > > Subject: Traditional Install or Knoppix?
> > >
> > >
> > > I plan to install Debian unstable on another machine.
> > > Whenever I have done
> > > this in the past I have started with a Woody install from cd
> > > followed by
> > > apt-get dist-upgrade which of course works well. However, is
> > > there any
> > > disadvantage to installing knoppix and then using
> > > dist-upgrade? Might save
> > > me some time and bandwidth.
> > >
> > > Any opinions welcome.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > Darryl
> > >
> > >
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