on Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:31:48PM -0500, Mike M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:04:34PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
snip
Nope. I use Knoppix to boot from, make the system image as far as
disks etc. I then mount those filesystems apropos and then run
debootstrap in
Hello
Mike M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:04:34PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
snip
Nope. I use Knoppix to boot from, make the system image as far as
disks etc. I then mount those filesystems apropos and then run
debootstrap in that directory and install a basic
On 2004-02-09, Krikket penned:
[snip]
What took me by surprise, when I started poking around with Knoppix is
that it uses a number of different branches off the tree. To get
gnome running, I had to use *experimental*. But it is running, and
without a problem. (Although not enough time has
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:10:33AM -0500, Krikket wrote:
This recent thread on Knoppix took me by surprise.
Why? No one has made any statement about the quality of Knoppix. It's a
perfectly fine LiveCD. I've not played with Morphix, but supposedly it's
an equally good one.
Besides, I don't
Hello
Krikket ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
This recent thread on Knoppix took me by surprise. From my point of
view, it has out-performed the other Linuxes in one way or another.
(My problem with the standard Debian install is with configuring the
kernel. At this point, I just don't get
On Monday 09 February 2004 01:10 am, Krikket wrote:
LibraNet looks good, but I don't want to pony up some cash until I know
which branch it's based on. Similar difficulties with Mepis and
Xandros.
You can download a classic (older) version of LibraNet for free, and
MEPIS can be downloaded
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 01:10, Krikket wrote:
I'm fairly new to the world of Debian, and it's varients. To get to the
point where I'm at, I've been playing around and installed a number of
distributions. (SuSE, Fedora Core 1, Red Hat 9, Debian, Knoppix, Gentoo,
Mandrake, FreeBSD, and probably
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 10:50:08 +0100, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
I'd just like to clarify a point here. It's one thing to have a running
system, and it's another thing to have an up to date system. The best
way to have an up to date system is to have a system that makes it easy
to upgrade and
Krikket krikket at gothpoodle.com writes:
LibraNet looks good, but I don't want to pony up some cash until I know
which branch it's based on. Similar difficulties with Mepis and Xandros.
The maintainers of LibraNet recently created their own repository of Debian
packages. They mix
* M.Kirchhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040209 09:50]:
Installation may be trickier than other distros (although that's
changing with the new Sarge installer), but once you're up and
running, it's a beautiful thing.
For the most part I agree. Last summer, however, I had to set up an
old,
On 2004-02-09, Andreas Janssen penned:
[snip]
I think discover can also run at boot time and load the drivers for
you.
I just set up linux from scratch on a machine using the netinstall CD ,
and it gave me the option to do this. Sound, network, etc were all
there without me having to figure
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:55:01AM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote:
snip
Knoppix uses software from all branches of Debian: stable, testing,
unstable and experimental. This means it is nearly possible to turn
Knoppix into Debian stable, supplying you with security updates and so
on. In the end,
On Monday 09 February 2004 11:37 am, Mike M wrote:
Does this mean that the only way to get a system that just works is to
mix and match software from all branches?
That depends on how you define just works. All branches except stable
have a chance of broken packages, so based on that stable is
Hi,
* Krikket wrote on 09.02.2004 (01:10):
it has out-performed the other Linuxes in one way or another. (My problem
with the standard Debian install is with configuring the kernel. At this
point, I just don't get it. I need to learn a lot more before I can do
that part on my own.) The
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Krikket [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm fairly new to the world of Debian, and it's varients. To get to the
point where I'm at, I've been playing around and installed a number of
distributions. (SuSE, Fedora
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:52:24PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
Ball in the camp of the nay-sayers: If someone doesn't know this, how
would installing Woody and updating (of except Woody) be any simpler ?
It's easy to track woody because woody never gets updated. You only get
minor security
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:11:29AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
What would you suggest as an alternative? I've heard calls for Morphix,
but that's a derivitive of Knoppix.
I'd suggest them putting the Woody CD in the drive and running the
installer. Woody's installer is pretty brain-dead...
Monique Y. Herman spam at bounceswoosh.org writes:
On 2004-02-09, Andreas Janssen penned:
[snip]
I think discover can also run at boot time and load the drivers for
you.
I just set up linux from scratch on a machine using the netinstall CD ,
and it gave me the option to do this.
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:55:03AM -0500, Adam Aube wrote:
On Monday 09 February 2004 11:37 am, Mike M wrote:
Does this mean that the only way to get a system that just works is to
mix and match software from all branches?
That depends on how you define just works. All branches except
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:29:37 -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:11:29AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
What would you suggest as an alternative? I've heard calls for Morphix,
but that's a derivitive of Knoppix.
I'd suggest them putting the Woody CD in the drive and
Hello
Mike M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
To use Debian on the latest hardware then you must use unstable or
testing, which exposes you to possible broken packages.
That is not always correct, because in many cases it is sufficient to
only use a newer Kernel (e.g. from backports.org, or
On Monday 09 February 2004 03:49 pm, Mike M wrote:
What I want is an up-to-date hardware configurator and all the
blessings of stable. This will most likely never be available. It
seems impossible.
You could try MEPIS. It can be freely downloaded, and can be installed or
run as a Live CD.
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 15:49, Mike M wrote:
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:55:03AM -0500, Adam Aube wrote:
On Monday 09 February 2004 11:37 am, Mike M wrote:
Does this mean that the only way to get a system that just works is to
mix and match software from all branches?
That depends on
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:04:34PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
snip
Nope. I use Knoppix to boot from, make the system image as far as
disks etc. I then mount those filesystems apropos and then run
debootstrap in that directory and install a basic system.
I then chroot into it and then update
I'm fairly new to the world of Debian, and it's varients. To get to the
point where I'm at, I've been playing around and installed a number of
distributions. (SuSE, Fedora Core 1, Red Hat 9, Debian, Knoppix, Gentoo,
Mandrake, FreeBSD, and probably one or two others that I'm forgetting.)
I've
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