Knoppix as a debian installer?

[KarrottoP]

I have a quick question for somebody who is more knowledgeable than me in this department...If I installed Knoppix to a hard drive and then adjusted the sources.list, would it not act like a true debian installation...allowing me to actually convert it to a debian testing or something like that buy apt-getting the upgrades etc?

[SuperNu]

You could use Knoppix as an install for Debian. I originally tried that with my laptop, but I didn't like the way Knoppix was setup, so I downloaded one of the Debian installer cds and went from there.

--SN

[KarrottoP]

Well I was worried about what would happen if I did an apt-get install or apt-get dist-upgrade....our change the source.list to make it sarge or something. I have some concerns about some other posts that I have read where people have had problems with that.

[FXEF]

I have done a Knoppix 3.2 hd install and did an apt-get dist-upgrade and had no problems. The source.list file is set for testing/unstable on install. I have been told you may have problems if you try to go from unstable to stable. I am fairly new to Linux and can not say for sure, just what I've heard.

If you want to start out with a (stable) Woody install, you might try Gnoppix. It has a Gnome desktop instead of KDE. I have not done a hd install but it comes with a install script.



FXEF
:)

[Sepero]

I'm running on a Knop/Deb system right now. I used to have a Deb only system, but I screwed up my partitions a couple months ago and did a Knoppix HD install to quickly get back up and running. I can attest that I have had a some problems, but nothing that couldn't be resolved. Probably the biggest problem was with apt-get. There was a problem with 5 packages that had strange dependencies and weren't upgrading correctly. It stopped me from installing or upgrading any other packages and kept saying to run "apt-get -f install", but it didn't help. The packages were "scribus" and some libraries. I solved it by uninstalling the problem packages like so:
apt-get remove scribus lib_foo lib_bar etc...

You will probably need to edit your source.list eventually; I highly recommend it. Also, something that can be slightly annoying is all the upgrades. I'm on dialup and Knoppix has a LOT of packages, so that means LOTS of upgrades. I would uninstall a some of them, but I haven't tried most of them yet. :D