Re: [SLUG] downloading debian
Ben Donohue wrote: I was wondering how to copy knoppix to my laptop. I have a partition for it but what do you mean when you say I can just copy it to the HDD. I was amazed to see knoppix run on my laptop as all other distro's I tried to install hung at various points and it was getting very frustrating! So I thought i'd like to copy knoppix to the HDD. How do you do that? Ben Something that tweaked my interest also since i am a huge fan of the knoppix distro, some guides that i found that may help. http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/knx-install.htm http://www.aims.ac.za/resources/tutorials/install/knoppix.php http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~decockd/site/myHowTos/Knoppix/Installing3.4/index.html http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html (didn't work for me) do a google and i am sure there are heaps more guides. gerry -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
FW: [SLUG] downloading debian
I went for a bit of a hunt and found http://files.bigpond.com had r3 Phill -Original Message- From: Michael Knight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 13 November 2004 4:05 PM To: Phill Subject: Re: [SLUG] downloading debian Hi Phil, Phill wrote: I am downloading debian for the first time to check it out. Is v3.0 (released dec 03) the latest version? I can't find a later version. There was a new release (release 3) of version 3.0 very recently (October this year) which you can find more info about here: http://lwn.net/Articles/108188/ It's a bit hard to find local mirrors with CD images of 3.0r3 though. Actually, it's even hard to find some American ones. It took me a while before I cam across this one: http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian-cd/images/3.0_r3/ Alternatively you can grab it through Bittorrent: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/torrents/3.0_r3/ Hope this helps! -- Mike smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] downloading debian
I am downloading debian for the first time to check it out. Is v3.0 (released dec 03) the latest version? I cant find a later version. Phill smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] downloading debian
Phill wrote: I am downloading debian for the first time to check it out. Is v3.0 (released dec 03) the latest version? I cant find a later version. Phill yep. Woody is the latest. stable (core) .debian. release. grab the 2nd cd if you dont have fast broadband. IMO, it's great for untouched, unmanaged, bulletproof and stable servers, and machines with 32mb ram, or enough ram to open a frame buffer / X desktop comfortably. but so is NetBSD, and FreeBSD. and OpenBSD. and a handful of floppy-disc-distros and USB keychain distros that fit in 5mb/100mb footprints. The latest debian offshoot would be ubuntu though, followed by knoppix. you should probably grab one of those too. as a side note, they put the LiveCD's on magazines and in newsagents theses days,which has the advantage of being ready to go, so no 198mb downloads of security/kernel patches, etc to get a bootable system, a 1 minute install/evaluation, and the livecd's can be copied straight to a HDD for permanence and speed. fedora core 3 also has some nice features, it is still redhat though, which might effect that decision. that said, ubuntu has nice things, e.g., clean, solid gnome with udev/gdev and 2.6.x prelinking. its wierd to have a linux distro that can auto-mount cdr's without setting up some pseudo daemon and waiting for the kernel to lock up in protest. and theres other intangibles too. That kind of retro new-age hippie communist thinking haunts the debian zealots, so its best to keep that kind of innovative talk to yourself. so,if they find out, just tell them they can do it themselves with about 4 hours of configuration, that should sedate them. Toliman. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] downloading debian
Hi Phil, Phill wrote: I am downloading debian for the first time to check it out. Is v3.0 (released dec 03) the latest version? I can't find a later version. There was a new release (release 3) of version 3.0 very recently (October this year) which you can find more info about here: http://lwn.net/Articles/108188/ It's a bit hard to find local mirrors with CD images of 3.0r3 though. Actually, it's even hard to find some American ones. It took me a while before I cam across this one: http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian-cd/images/3.0_r3/ Alternatively you can grab it through Bittorrent: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/torrents/3.0_r3/ Hope this helps! -- Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] downloading debian
Toliman wrote: as a side note, they put the LiveCD's on magazines and in newsagents theses days,which has the advantage of being ready to go, so no 198mb downloads of security/kernel patches, etc to get a bootable system, a 1 minute install/evaluation, and the livecd's can be copied straight to a HDD for permanence and speed. fedora core 3 also has some nice features, it is still redhat though, which might effect that decision. I was wondering how to copy knoppix to my laptop. I have a partition for it but what do you mean when you say I can just copy it to the HDD. I was amazed to see knoppix run on my laptop as all other distro's I tried to install hung at various points and it was getting very frustrating! So I thought i'd like to copy knoppix to the HDD. How do you do that? Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
