[CLUE-Tech] Problems with Sarge

[Angelo Bertolli]

> You could boot a Knoppix CD, copy the X configuration off to another 
> machine somewhere and then replace the Debian installer's one with the 
> Knoppix configuration file, if Knoppix X works correctly.
>
XFree86Config-4 only, or.... ?

> That's a trick I learned from someone that saved me hours of tinkering 
> with Debian's broken installer on a machine with an Nvidia card that 
> it was unhappy with.
>
> Actually, one guy took that idea a step further and uses Knoppix to 
> get a auto-detected system and uses debbootstrap to bring up a clean 
> Debian install from a Knoppix boot:
>
> http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html
>
Thanks.  Actually I've been looking at some of these sorts of things.  
The only problem is they require you to have a high speed internet 
connection since it seems you typically "Install Knoppix" and then 
"Upgrade it to Debian unstable" or "Use it to install Debian" from an 
internet connection.  I'm not getting rid of dialup for another couple 
of months.


Angelo