Re: Libranet / Ubuntu --> Debian?

[Roby <sobrecarga@adelphia.net>]

Kent West wrote:

> Bob Freemer wrote:
> 
>>I've discovered one of the remaining few areas where Debian can be a real
>>pain is in hardware detection.  I've tested on a number of machines and
>>even debian-installer can't match libranet/ubuntu/knoppix.  Any tips on
>>using one of these distros to install plain debian?  Or even better, an
>>apt-get metapackage which installs required packages for ACCURATE hardware
>>detection?  Knoppix and libranet last I tried leave little traces of
>>custom packages so full migration to debian is buggy.
>>  
>>
> Kanotix is a Knoppix-like distro that is designed to be completely
> Debian-based, so that migration to pure Debian is a no-brainer.
> http://kanotix.org/
> 
I took your advice and installed Kanotix on two machines, then did
dist-upgrades.  I was amazed at all the magic.

Thanks!!

Roby