[plug] Knoppix CD

[Chris Caston]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 23:22, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> I´ve had a lot of joy with knoppix install.
> 
> make sure you boot with the language=en or whatever it is setup.
> 
> also, strongly recomend to edit the hell out of that sources.list file in
> /etc/apt
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> job well done.
> 


I usually just scp my apt source file over.

I have something along the lines of:

deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free
contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main
contrib non-free


Just running apt-setup will append to all the other (very non-waix)
sources already in there. You probably want to delete or backup the
/etc/apt/sources.list file first.

I recommend using the unstable tree as the software in Woody is much
older than that in Knoppix.

If you want to try out kio-apt

Let's your search apt cache through Konqourer and the apt:/ protocol try
adding:

deb http://lpnotfr.free.fr/debian/ ./
deb-src http://lpnotfr.free.fr/debian/ ./

the package is just called kio-apt

> And yeah. there *is* some wierd scripting in there that makes hardware
> upgrades a little unusual.
> 
It uses Kudzu and hotplug for certain USB devices such as USB lan keys
or USB -> eth adapters.

There is also some weird DHCP and LTSP-like server on there that I
didn't quite understand. Maybe somehow related to cluster Knoppix.

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> 
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 
> > Aaron Wooten wrote:
> >
> > | I just tried out the new knoppix and was quite impressed, has anyone
> > | had any success transfering it over to a hard drive ?
> >
> > It can be done, but people on Debian mailing lists will hate you if you
> > come to them asking why you can't upgrade properly or some things don't
> > quite work.  (Knoppix is a mix of standard Debian packages from 'unstable'
> > and its own custom packages.)
> >
> > knx-hdinstall is the command, if you really have to...
> >
> > If you want a less painful way of installing Debian (with hardware
> > detection and stuff), you could help beta-test the new debian-installer.
> > beta2 will be out soonish ;-)
> >
> > Cameron.
> >
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