[TriLUG] Debian any good?

[Mike M]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:45:08AM -0500, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> 
> Some of my Debian friends, after having to spend way too much time 
> getting a debian desktop in place, got sick of it and now on their 
> desktops they are using Mandrake[*]. And those friends used to be the 
> ones "wearing an orange robe with Debian's spiral tatooed on their 
> forehead" (at least, this is the way Debian "believers" describe 
> themselves when we are all kidding). Of course, they all still use 
> Debian on their servers and have no plan to change this fact.
> 
Install Knoppix to HDD.  Piece of cake.  Everything works and you get
all the other advantages of Debian too.  No need to get the tatoo
removed.

If you doing a server you should just do the netinstall using the first
disk of the ISO set.  I used wget -c and find the best performing mirror
to get the first .iso image.  You'll need broadband for the netinstall.

If you load Knoppix to HDD you'll need to do:
apt-get update
apt-get -u upgrade

sometime soon after getting things running.  Having a broadband
connection is good for that too.

-- 
Mike