(clug-talk) Update on Knoppix

[Jeffrey Clement]

Update for my post yesterday.

On the 10th a new version of Knoppix was released and it's even better. Last night I downloaded and installed this on my laptop and it's even better that the last Knoppix (This probably wins my award for slickest/easiest Linux install ever.)

Just boot from the CD and from a terminal
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/knx-hdinstall

it lets you partition and choose file systems, services and the usual stuff but you don't choose packages to install. It installs all the Knoppix stuff. Since Knoppix already knows about your hardware this gets transfered to the new machine and just works.. X, mouse, sound, etc all works.

To add software later Knoppix is based on debian so you can use apt-get and it all works great.

Only problem I had with the new version was /etc/skel contains a bunch of config files with the language set to German. I just nuked everything in /etc/skel and the added my users and it works great.

All in all if you like Debians stability and packages but hate the installer this is a great way to get a good working workstation in about 20min.

Jeff