Hey Jeff, is that the version you gave us on thursday? or is there yet,
another newer version?

Raf.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Clement" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:58 AM
Subject: (clug-talk) Update on Knoppix


> 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

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