[wplug] Regarding Knoppix

[Bryon Gill]

Actually they use a bunch of custom packages, it's debian-based but it's 
not an official debian distribution.  If you try to do a dist-upgrade with 
the official debian packages you may find yourself doing some hairy 
reconfiguration of things like X. 

Bryon

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ghataora, Hardeep wrote:

> I believe it's an unstable version of woody, it's definitly not a stable
> release, like my spelling.
> I didn't have much luck with knoppix-installer, bombed inside of a
> vmware window, anyone else had any luck with it?
> 
> H
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Harrold [mailto:jmh17 at pitt.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:39 AM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] Regarding Knoppix
> 
> 
> Sometime in February Ghataora, Hardeep assaulted the keyboard and
> produced:
> 
> | Once you've installed it you'll have a fully functional copy of debian
> 
> | on your hard disk, and you can start using apt-get to update it. Works
> 
> | well I've done it on a few machines to get LINUX quick (I still don't 
> | know how to create a RedHat kickstart floppy).
> | 
> | I've not given knoppix-installer a try, might give it a go this 
> | morning.
> 
> quick question, what version of debian is knoppix based on?
> 
> kickstart's not to hard to use. run:
> 
> $ redhat-config-kickstart
> 
> answer all of the questions and save the file to ks.cfg. put the ks.cfg
> file on the bootable install floppy. when lilo comes up type:
> 
> linux ks=floppy
> 
> and it should be off. i've noticed that when kickstart does fail, the
> errors are not terribly useful. python just kind of barfs out some
> stuff.
> 
> 
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