Re: Possible convert to Debian
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On Monday 07 June 2004 8:26 pm, William Ballard wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:10:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> > Any other comments for this relative newbie that's old (>50) and not a
> > sysadmin by trade? Thanks a bunch for your time!
>
> It takes about a month of solid work to get all your hardware and eye
> candy working in Sid. Use Knoppix LiveCD detect all your hardware, and
> print out what drivers are detected and the output of lspci and stuff.
>
> It takes about 15-20 clean "do-overs" before you'll get it all working
> "cleanly."
[snip]
> It's hard but worth it.
It is not *that* hard. If you want to use Knoppix, install Knoppix, then
upgrade to unstable. The instructions are on knoppix.net. It might take you
twice to get it right.
In the recent version of Knoppix, they repackaged some common packages. You
will probably want to remove their custom packages and download the standard
packages.
Right now is probably a good time to do it. I don't think anything in Knoppix
is currently broken in unstable.
Peter A. Bonucci
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