Kent West wrote: > Bob Freemer wrote: > >>I've discovered one of the remaining few areas where Debian can be a real >>pain is in hardware detection. I've tested on a number of machines and >>even debian-installer can't match libranet/ubuntu/knoppix. Any tips on >>using one of these distros to install plain debian? Or even better, an >>apt-get metapackage which installs required packages for ACCURATE hardware >>detection? Knoppix and libranet last I tried leave little traces of >>custom packages so full migration to debian is buggy. >> >> > Kanotix is a Knoppix-like distro that is designed to be completely > Debian-based, so that migration to pure Debian is a no-brainer. > http://kanotix.org/ > I took your advice and installed Kanotix on two machines, then did dist-upgrades. I was amazed at all the magic.
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