On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 10:16, Michael Halcrow wrote: > In all seriousness, it takes at least 2 hours to get a Debian box up > and running at an install fest. With Knoppix, it's more like 10-20 > minutes. That only means that you can get more people in and out of > the install fest stations with less hand-holding. In fact, I would > bet that it takes less time to install Knoppix than Red Hat or > Mandrake, simply because all it does is copy over an image, rather > than install actual packages.
I love Debian, and Knoppix did install very quickly--for my machine--(aside from the update/upgrades afterwards). However, I remember it installed a bunch of stuff (services) that a normal workstation wouldn't need. I don't know if I had an old version, or if I missed an option somewhere, but I know for my workstation I didn't dhcpd and some other services that it installed (I can't remember others right now). My preference is the lightweight side of Debian--partly because I've got a slow machine. Did I miss something? Casey
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