Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-04-02 Thread csj
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 05:25:29 +1000 bob parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider yourself lucky. I have problems just trying to download the image. Just two days ago I managed to get past the 150 MB mark, when the mirror I was using

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-04-02 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 11:14, csj wrote: What mirror did you use? There is a list of rsync, ftp, http mirrors at the bottom of this link: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html#order I suppose you can't effectively rsync two different iso images (say from version 3.1 to 3.2). I

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-04-01 Thread csj
At Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:49:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Mar 2003 02:09:11 -0500 Mark L. Kahnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The band around the spindle says 700 MB (and even Memorex) but I've produced two coasters based on the message hoarked out by cdrecord. I just don't

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-04-01 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider yourself lucky. I have problems just trying to download the image. Just two days ago I managed to get past the 150 MB mark, when the mirror I was using decided to put up a newer ISO image. Just yesterday, using another mirror, I had

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 01:07:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was interested to note that Memorex is classified medium-quality on the cdmediaworld web site. Actually, it listed them as bargain-basement, but considering it's the only brand

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-31 Thread Al Davis
On Sunday 30 March 2003 10:38 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: I gotta wonder why everybody's harping so badly on Memorex. I've got to really abuse the media to burn a Memorex brand coaster. So far, the only Memorex CDR I couldn't burn was one I made a fractal out of in the microwave with. Do y'all

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 02:09:11AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: The band around the spindle says 700 MB (and even Memorex) but I've produced two coasters based on the message hoarked out by cdrecord. Try using xcdroast to help you out. -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On 30 Mar 2003 02:09:11 -0500 Mark L. Kahnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The band around the spindle says 700 MB (and even Memorex) but I've produced two coasters based on the message hoarked out by cdrecord. I just don't seem to have much luck with trying to get a working Knoppix CD ;) I

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-30 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 11:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Mar 2003 02:09:11 -0500 Mark L. Kahnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The band around the spindle says 700 MB (and even Memorex) but I've produced two coasters based on the message hoarked out by cdrecord. I just don't seem to have

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-30 Thread Craig Dickson
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Well, it wasn't only Memorex media that became coasters, but thx for the heads up. (Looking over shoulder and seeing 48 blanks still on that 50 CD Memorex spindle, and muttering various phrases inappropriate for this mailing list) For future reference, I've had good

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On 30 Mar 2003 12:19:05 -0500 Mark L. Kahnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it wasn't only Memorex media that became coasters, but thx for the heads up. (Looking over shoulder and seeing 48 blanks still on that 50 CD Memorex spindle, and muttering various phrases inappropriate for this mailing

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 12:19:05PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Well, it wasn't only Memorex media that became coasters, but thx for the heads up. (Looking over shoulder and seeing 48 blanks still on that 50 CD Memorex spindle, and muttering various phrases inappropriate for this mailing list)

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 02:35:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_quality.shtml I can't believe that this is entirely accurate. I have had terrible luck with Pioneer discs, but no trouble at all with Memorex ones, which seems to be the exact opposite

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:38:08 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I gotta wonder why everybody's harping so badly on Memorex. I've got to really abuse the media to burn a Memorex brand coaster. So far, the only Memorex CDR I couldn't burn was one I made a fractal out of in the

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:56:05AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Btw, has anyone else found that the English ISO of Knoppix 3.2 for 24 March 2003 displays a lot of things in German even if you include lang=us in the boot command? Older versions of

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:20:57AM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: We all shall be thankfull to Knopper, for his wonderfull idea and work. But Peopel (including me) have been telling knopper for some time, that his project is really taking momentum but

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-29 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:03, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:20:57AM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: We all shall be thankfull to Knopper, for his wonderfull idea and work. But Peopel (including me) have been telling knopper for some time, that his project is really taking

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-29 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 04:57, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:56:05AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Btw, has anyone else found that the English ISO of Knoppix 3.2 for 24 March 2003 displays a lot of things in German even if you

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-29 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 16:16, Aryan Ameri wrote: What about Libranet? Has anyone tried installing Libranet, and the pointing the repository to Debain's repository and upgrade packages? Do you think it is doable? Done with Libra 2.7, then used woody sources + the important backports. Worked

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:55:36PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Yep - I pulled an iso of it from ftp.leo.org, burned it to a cd, and then realised that it was too big for the 700 MB CDs I have here (as was 3.1) and none of the local stores have the

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-29 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 00:39, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:55:36PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Yep - I pulled an iso of it from ftp.leo.org, burned it to a cd, and then realised that it was too big for the 700 MB CDs I have here (as was 3.1) and none of the local stores

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 00:02, Terry Milnes wrote: Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? Yes, Ive never done it but Ive heard of others doing it. Also Knoppix is based

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Leo Spalteholz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On March 27, 2003 09:02 pm, Terry Milnes wrote: Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? NeoFax yes. However

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread Stefan Ulbrich
Leo Spalteholz schrieb: On March 27, 2003 09:02 pm, Terry Milnes wrote: Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? NeoFax yes. However the stable repository will most

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Friday 28 March 2003 07:02, Terry Milnes wrote: Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other It is possible. Many people have done this. Cheers -- /* Those who do not understand Unix

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Friday 28 March 2003 07:33, Leo Spalteholz wrote: yes. However the stable repository will most likely have older packages than what is in Knoppix. S Well, KNOPPIX is a bloody mixture of srage/sid/potato/woody. Belive it or not, it is badly broken, I don't even know how Knopper builds

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread Ed Lawson
Aryan Ameri wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 07:33, Leo Spalteholz wrote: yes. However the stable repository will most likely have older packages than what is in Knoppix. S Well, KNOPPIX is a bloody mixture of srage/sid/potato/woody. My experience in shifting the apt sources to Debian

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Friday 28 March 2003 11:07, Ed Lawson wrote: Aryan Ameri wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 07:33, Leo Spalteholz wrote: yes. However the stable repository will most likely have older packages than what is in Knoppix. S Well, KNOPPIX is a bloody mixture of srage/sid/potato/woody. My

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread ronin2
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:16:07 +0200 Aryan Ameri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about Libranet? Has anyone tried installing Libranet, and the pointing the repository to Debain's repository and upgrade packages? Do you think it is doable? I've done this with Xandros, and it works quite well.

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread Bob Paige
Yeah, I have heard about this Morphix, and some suggest that it has a much cleaner designe that Knoppix, but I have heard that Morphix is still an infant project, and not mature enough. What about Libranet? Has anyone tried installing Libranet, and the pointing the repository to Debain's

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread Craig Dickson
sean finney wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:02:26PM -0800, Terry Milnes wrote: Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? you can do it, but you'll probably

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:56:05AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: (from a knoppix boot up) # fdisk /dev/hda # mkdir /target (mount all the hard drive partitions into /target, /target/usr, etc...) # debootstrap sid /target (you can do woody instead of sid if you want stable) # chroot

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread Craig Dickson
sean finney wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:56:05AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: (from a knoppix boot up) # fdisk /dev/hda # mkdir /target (mount all the hard drive partitions into /target, /target/usr, etc...) # debootstrap sid /target (you can do woody instead of sid if you

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Friday 28 March 2003 19:56, Craig Dickson wrote: Btw, has anyone else found that the English ISO of Knoppix 3.2 for 24 March 2003 displays a lot of things in German even if you include lang=us in the boot command? Older versions of Knoppix did not do this to me. OT, but I guess people

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-28 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:11:31PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: I must be failing to understand something here. Knoppix will certainly autoconfigure itself when it boots off the CD, but I don't see anything that causes that configuration to be remembered for later when you boot your new Debian

KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-27 Thread Terry Milnes
Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? NeoFax

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-27 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 27, 2003 09:02 pm, Terry Milnes wrote: Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? NeoFax yes. However the stable repository will most likely have older