On Thursday 02 October 2003 04:03, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > Edward Murrell wrote: > > [Debian as a Windoze replacement] > > Hi Ed (and Joe of course :-P), > > as a replacement for Win, you should try Knoppix. Really. It runs straight > from CD, and it has a very good hardware detection. You can get it at > > http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ > > After installing it to disk with knx-hdinstall, you might want to change > the /etc/apt/sources.list to unstable, followed by an apt-get update and > apt-get dist-upgrade. > > > The hardware is as follows; > > Athlon 1600, 256 MB DDR, nForce1 board, nForce1 sound, AGP GF4MX, > > generic networking (Realtek I think). > > For the nforce-board (I have one also, tho my wife and me use regular > Debian), get the drivers from the nvidia page. Sound will work out of the > box (even with Knoppix, which uses the i810 drivers), but 3D gaming will be > a bit slow with the XFree 'nv' drivers. The nvidia script makes all the > appropriate changes. > > After all the upgrading, you'll have Sid, which works great. > > HTH, > wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien > -- > NTV '94 RedSue 24-42Mm running on fuel, everything else runs Debian
Thanks for the tips. I consider myself Joe Average. I've run Mandrake and SuSE - but have had problems getting everything just right in Debian Woody. I also have a Knoppix CD - so might just try the Knoppix to hard disk route. Is there a FAQ on how to change the /etc/apt/sources.list to unstable? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
