I installed via Knoppix. Things went smoothly and I have had no problems with the apt-get upgrade process.
However.... There are *situations* to think about: - By default the install goes into a single partition. There are howtos to get the /home directories onto another partition, but that is the default. - By default the user that is installed is named 'knoppix' again there are howtos to install with a different user. - once installed vs running from the cd, knoppix loses all of its unique hardware detection capabilities. - knoppix installs alot of packages that a typical user - especially a newbie doesn't need Within the situations described, I am pleased with the install. It was very quick and easy and does give a user a very workable system. Cheers, Lou Losee * Darryl Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-17 06:02]: > 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] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
