debian?

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 18 May 2003 20:53:54 -0500
"David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 May 2003 16:13:31 -0600
> Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:
> 
> > Too many levels of quotes; I forget who said this.
> > 
> > [ snips ]
> > 
> > > 
> > > If you stay with the KNOPPIX autoconfig, you?ll have no problem. 
> > > If you move over to the Debian scripts, you?ll have some
> > > reconfiguring to do.
> > > 
> > 
> > How about a little more elaborate explanation.  What is KNOPPIX
> > autoconfig and what are the Debian scripts.
> 
> I said the above.
> 
> Basically, KNOPPIX has some scripts that run at boot time.  When
> KNOPPIX boots you see something that says: autoconfiguring, and you
> see a little green bar growing to the right as it tries out various
> modules.
> 
> The KNOPPIX autoconfiguration (and SysV init) scripts are KNOPPIX .deb
> packages (like .rpm packages) that they created and installed instead
> of the standard Debian .deb SysV init scripts.
> 
> If you remove the KNOPPIX scripts and replace them with the standard
> Debian packages, you loose a lot of what KNOPPIX is all about.  You?ll
> also find you?ll have to manually do what KNOPPIX did automagically
> before.
> 
> That help?
> 

Yep, thanks.


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Collins Richey - Denver Area
gentoo stable - ext3