[Glastonbury] Just a little idea

[peter cole]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 13:45, tim hall wrote:
> Last Tuesday 09 November 2004 06:45, Sean Miller was like:
> > If it were only me then we might actually have more Linux users than
> > Windows ones in the world... this is one of the things holding Linux back,
> > and it is why I have so much time for distros that make it easy. I do admit
> > that Knoppix is pretty impressive, as is DeMUDI, so why is it that when one
> > tries to install either to the hard disk (rather than LiveCD) they both
> > turn into a nightmare that seems to need an in-depth knowledge of Linux
> > internals to get to work?!?!?!!? (this was my experience with DeMUDI
> > anyway) -- if you really want to impress get DeMUDI working on my laptop in
> > hard disc mode within a couple of hours... then I'd be converted! I never
> > managed it...
> 
> Yep, Knoppix is great as a demo, but pointless trying to install it to HD - 
> it's more or less not upgradeable.

Not sure on this you can upgrade but you have to be careful i lost
pcmcia on the laptop when i upgraded. i use knoppix hd install every
day, 
only a couple of issues on a single partition install and it did not set
up the webcam access nor did it do the digital camera. 

My pay to look at memphis as this is more multimedia that knoppix 

>  The A/DeMuDi-1.1.1 live CD (based on 
> Knoppix) is only intended as a demo and never intended to be installed, 
> absolutely everyone who tried had nightmares. The proper 1.2.0 release, which 
> is based on Debian Sarge installs easily.
> 
> I'll install A/DeMuDi on anything that stands still long enough and doesn't 
> need proprietary drivers, gladly.
> 
> cheers
> 
> tim hall
> 
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