debian?

[C M Reinehr]

Gary Wilson wrote:

> A couple of gotcha's to watch out for. There aren't
> really any partitioniing options. You get a swap
> partition and a root partition. The latest version of
> 3.2 beta includes support for XFS, but every time I've
> tried to use it, the installation has failed.

I ran into this, too. It only seems to occur with XFS. I worked around the 
problem by doing a minor edit of the install script. Basically, all the 
script does, as David Bandel said yesterday, is "cp -a KNOPPIX/ /blah". 
The problem seems to arise with that part of the script which draws a 
progress bar on the screen. I changed the code to omit the progress bar & 
just let the cp command scroll the file names to the screen and it worked 
perfectly. My inexpert guess is that there is some kind of a timing 
problem and scrolling output to the screen slowed things down a bit.

Another problem I ran into came from my inexperience with Debian and 
apt-get. I got myself into a "fine mess" when I did my first upgrade. I 
forget, now, what I was trying to do, but I kept getting whipsawed. I made 
a selection in dselect and the next thing I new, the entire KDE system had 
been erased. Then, when I reinstalled KDE, whatever else it was that I was 
trying to install, would get erased. (Looking back, I'm sure the problem 
stemmed from my adding some new sources to the sources.list which resulted 
in some library conflicts, but some documentation regarding upgrading 
would have been nice -- or else, just don't upgrade, until the next 
Knoppix version is released!)

cmr

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