[NBLUG/talk] Debian module install

[Crawford Rainwater]

For Knoppix 3.1:
- Boot off the CD.
- At the "boot:" prompt, "knoppix lang=us" (hit F2 for other options like
  for framebuffers on a laptop and such).

Here, by default, Knoppix will have your network card configured, so you
should be able to surf your network after putting in some routing table
information.  You can see what else was loaded up upon boot up as well.

Once KDE loads up...

- Open a command shell.
- $ sudo passwd (change the root password temporarily to something like
  "password")
- $ su - (this will do the TUI in the command shell; without the "-", it
   will do it in the KDE environment; have not seen any issues either way,
   does the same thing basically)
- # knx-hdinstall

And select your options from there for a base installation.

By default, it sort of slams everything into one partition as a warning.
You can manually edit things in /etc/fstab and make other partitions by
copying the files over later, but it is a hassle I do admit.

Also to note, the user "knoppix" (created by default) will have the
KDE settings for German by default.  Change this in the KDE configuration
panel before your user starts to complain. ;-)

Side additions, download a copy of the 2.4.20 kernel and upgrade from
there as needed.

HTH.

--- Crawford

> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
> Warren Raquel
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:35 PM
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Debian module install
>
>
> It's a headache transforming the Knoppix base install into a normal
> multi-user system. Well, at least from what I've played with so far.
> Maybe I installed it wrong. Do you know a good step-by-step to install
> knoppix on the hd, in english? I couldn't find a process to do the
> install automatically.
>
> Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> > Just why not use Knoppix for the base installation and
> > modify the /etc/apt/sources.list file for stable and proceed
> > from there?  All Knoppix really is, is a bootable CD
> > version of Debian after all.
> >
> > Second thought, which kernel are you doing for the Debian
> > base installation?  The default for 3.0r0 is 2.2 still,
> > not 2.4 (Knoppix 3.1 uses 2.4.19-??? per memory).  And unless
> > the card is bad, it should pick up things from there.
> >
> > Just some ideas, FWIW.
> >
> > --- Crawford
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
> >>Warren Raquel
> >>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:16 PM
> >>To: talk at nblug.org
> >>Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Debian module install
> >>
> >>
> >>What am I doing wrong? I can install RedHat, Slackware, Gentoo,
> and even
> >>run Knoppix on this Dell Optiplex G1 and have it recognize and install
> >>the 3com card but I can't for the life of me get the 3c59x driver to
> >>install during the debian install.
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