A friend of mine (newbie) installed Debian by way of knoppix. I didn't know about knoppix so I basically thought that he screwed up BIG TIME on his install. I could not figure why on earth he'd need a logical volume manager, why did he install everything under a single partition, why did his vfat partitions were mounted with their device names (ex: /mnt/hda1), etc etc etc. I also remembered seeing files owned by a user "knoppix" all over the places but was not aware of that install system.
Now that I know, I'll stay well clear of it. My friend's system is quite sub-optimal -- not to say totally screwed up-- as it is (even considering he's a newbie who likes to tamper with stuff). Jeff On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 05:57, Lou Losee wrote: > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
