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

2003-04-02 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 us

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

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. > > >

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'a

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

2003-03-30 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 m

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 c

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 lis

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

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 e

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

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 ;)

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

2003-03-29 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 stor

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 th

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 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

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 takin

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 b

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 o

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 Debi

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 peopl

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 inst

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) > >

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 prob

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 repos

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 wel

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/wood

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 w

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 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 *ar

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 likel

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. H

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 bas

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 pa