[Sderby] Debian

[Christopher Gavin]

Knoppix is a "Debian based" distro. 

Its really useful for using as an emergency boot disk or for setting up
boxes on the move, at events or for presentations. 

I have a copy of 3.1 knocking around but have only used it on the laptop
from time to time. 

G.


On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 21:25, Paul Grosse wrote:
> Am I correct in thinking that KNOPPIX is Debian? I just lownloaded KNOPPIX
> 3.3 (took 3 hours on a 600k BB line) and I think the Kernel is 2.4.22. It
> might be interesting to try that and see if you can use your serial ATA.
> Next ??? (_!_)
> 
> Paul Grosse
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Hemstock" <hemstock at tiscali.co.uk>
> To: "South Derby LUG General Mailing List" <sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 7:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sderby] Debian
> 
> 
> > On Saturday 17 January 2004 18:54, Ian Spratt wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Anyone out there running debian at present?
> > > > I've just upgraded my pc and rather than reinstall fedora core,
> thought
> > >
> > > I'd try the latest debian cd's (7 in total - taken the best part of all
> > > day to download). This will sit alongside windows xp - this needed a
> third
> > > party driver for the hard disk controller to boot.
> > >
> > > > My issue is that debian doesn't find the hard disk (serial ata drive)
> > >
> > > and consequently won't install - does anyone have any ideas? I've
> trawled
> > > through the debian site but can't find anything specific.
> > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Roger
> > >
> > > Hi Roger
> > > I use debian on several machines, but none of them are serial ata. do
> you
> > > know what version of the kernel the installer is running? i think the
> > > standard for debian woody (the current stable version) isnt even a 2.4
> > > series, so wont have serial ata controller support. if you havent
> already
> > > tried, try the bf2.4 kernel during the install, which might need to boot
> > > from a different disk.
> > >
> > > if all else fails, you could try the beta version of the new debian
> > > installer. its available from
> > > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> > > the problem with this is it needs internet access, and downloads all the
> > > packages from the internet, rather than from the cds you already have.
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Ian
> >
> > SATA support for Linux is still very new.  If your feeling ambitious, try
> the
> > 2.6.1 kernel.  If not, go for the lastest 2.4 release, that may be 2.4.23?
> >
> > Mike.
> >
> >
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