Am 01. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Alex Munro so:

> I'm migrating my boxes at home from Redhat based
> distros to Debian. Lately I've been playing with the
> Knoppix based distros, I really liked the remasters by
> Morphix, and I've been following the threads on using
> Knoppix as a Debian installer. I went to the archives
> to copy the threads and the archives no longer appear
> to be maintained. Does anyone know where I can get
> copies of those threads?

There's borkage in mailman. Don't know when it'll get fixed.

> I've been using the Redhat based distros because of
> their easy install. I've got a PIII running shrike, a
> bondi imac running yellowdog, and a PII running
> Mandrake 9. Which files on these boxes would contain
> info that would help me with the Debian install?

Copy the network config files and the X config files.

Run sys_stats.sh and copy the file it creates.

https://www.LuftHans.com/unix/

I'm certain I've forgotten some things to grab in that script.

> Should I do the Intel boxes through Knoppix or go
> right to Debian?

Updating Knoppix boxen seems to be somewhat problematic. Maybe using the
sources.list and apt preferences as listed in cafod at the above URL will
help.

There is also a Knoppix for PPC. The CD I burned is not working, though.

ciao,

der.hans
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