spawn of debian: choosing a live-boot CD distro

[Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

ultimately what we're after is a debian-based install that does
server functions (email, web, database) that has GOOD DETECTION
ROUTINES at install, such as

	knoppix
	morphix
	lilbranet
	mepis
	xandros

any opinions on using these to detect hardware, install, and
serve, serve, serve?

we have direct experience with knoppix and morphix -- both have
good hardware detection, but insist on installing all kinds of
desktop/gui stuff.

trying to get a woody (or sarge, for that matter) up and running
on our raid server was a morass wed on't want to try again soon.
morphix detected everything, we installed, and then set runlevel
2 to NOT launch any X apps.

isn't there a cleaner way without having to be a brilliant
hardware guru?

-- 
I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown
 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #46 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>
:
Troubled by MAC-FORMAT TEXT FILES? There are many ways
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	:set ffs=mac
	:e!
	:set ff=unix
and then save/write the file (":opt" for more info).
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	perl -pi.mac -l12 -015 -e ';' filename*pattern.txt
(that's a <hyphen-el-one-two> and <hyphen-zero-one-five>, by
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