Hershel, I haven't tried Knoppix to Debian myself, though I have seen a number of relevant posts. Apparently Knoppix is basically Debian unstable. Depending on exactly what the differences are, it may be possible to simply update the sources and do an apt-get upgrade to go to Debian unstable. I saw one post from someone who tried this and managed to break their KDE, and am mainly interested in whether others have tried this more succesfully. I'm not familiar enough with Knoppix to know what changes have been made and what may go wrong.
regards, Darryl On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 07:14 pm, you wrote: > Darryl, I am a newbie newbie about to install Debian for the very first > time on a Celeron machine. I have Knoppix (from last week) and it runs on > my P III. I have no great interest in investing a lot of time playing with > the installation of Debian. How does this Knoppix to Debian work? You just > install Knoppix (with all of its auto-detection for x86 architecture) and > then upgrade to whichever Debian you want? > > I am watching the list for responses, but you say that this has worked in > the past for you. > > Thank you, > Hershel Robinson > Jerusalem, Israel > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Darryl Barlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sun, August 17, 2003 4:30 > > To: debian users > > Subject: Traditional Install or Knoppix? > > > > > > I plan to install Debian unstable on another machine. > > Whenever I have done > > this in the past I have started with a Woody install from cd > > followed by > > apt-get dist-upgrade which of course works well. However, is > > there any > > disadvantage to installing knoppix and then using > > dist-upgrade? Might save > > me some time and bandwidth. > > > > Any opinions welcome. > > > > regards, > > > > Darryl > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]