Re: debian, request help

2003-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:11:05PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Thanks, but this installs Knoppix. I want to install Debian. Is > Knoppix a clone of one of the Debian distributions? Do I just use > apt-get dist-upgrade? Or what? And which distribution

Re: debian, request help

2003-06-20 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Paul E Condon said on Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:11:05PM -0600: > Thanks, but this installs Knoppix. I want to install Debian. Is > Knoppix a clone of one of the Debian distributions? Do I just use > apt-get dist-upgrade? Or what? And which distribution do I get? > Potato, Woody, Sarge, Sid? Knoppix

Re: debian, request help

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 17:11, Paul E Condon wrote: > Thanks, but this installs Knoppix. I want to install Debian. Is > Knoppix a clone of one of the Debian distributions? Do I just use > apt-get dist-upgrade? Or what? And which distribution do I get? > Potato, Woody, Sarge, Sid? Knoppix is basically

Re: debian, request help

2003-06-20 Thread Paul E Condon
Thanks, but this installs Knoppix. I want to install Debian. Is Knoppix a clone of one of the Debian distributions? Do I just use apt-get dist-upgrade? Or what? And which distribution do I get? Potato, Woody, Sarge, Sid? Also, to run as root, I need to know the root password for Knoppix. It is not

Knoppix & Debian chroot install (was Re: debian, request help)

2003-06-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:40:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have tried Knoppix and find amazing what it finds out > automatically. But I don't understand how Karsten uses it to install > Debian. Could someone (possibly Karsten) amplify on his terse > description of this m

Re: debian, request help

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 12:40, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have tried Knoppix and find amazing what it finds out > automatically. But I don't understand how Karsten uses it to install > Debian. Could someone (possibly Karsten) amplify on his terse > description of this method. I would like to try it on

Re: debian, request help

2003-06-20 Thread Paul E Condon
I have tried Knoppix and find amazing what it finds out automatically. But I don't understand how Karsten uses it to install Debian. Could someone (possibly Karsten) amplify on his terse description of this method. I would like to try it on an old box that I have been unable to get working. Please