[CLUE-Tech] Problems with Sarge

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 12:17:17 -0400
Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org> wrote:

> 
> > 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.
> 

Just do the upgrade overnight - let the dialup chug away with it. A
number of folks run gentoo from a dialup connection.

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