Nine Knoppix Addons

[Radagast]

I've been using knoppix-installed debian as my personal workstation for almost a year. I love it.

Last week I did two knoppix installs for linux newbies and I discovered that knoppix isn't as perfect as I had thought. So here is a list of nine things to do after a knoppix hard drive install

http://www3.sympatico.ca/howlettfamily/linux/knoppix_addons.html

later,
andrew.

[mzilikazi]

May I make some suggestions?

1) apt-get update

If you really want to do it right then do apt-get update && apt-get install apt-spy

Then simply run apt-spy to benchmark mirrors that are close to you.

2) apt-get upgrade

You really should know what you're doing here. apt-get upgrade w/ a mix of stable/testing & unstable sources is likely to get you into trouble w/ apt at some point. Personally I use testing/unstable and have no worries.

3) network configuration

Not all high speed connections are DSL. ;)

4) Set the correct video card

The drivers are installed, but you will have to modify the drivers section.

Not necessarily true. For example if you have nforce or ATI video the drivers are definitely NOT installed. The easiest way to do this is with a script from Kano:

http://kanotix.com/files/

5) OO should NOT be downloaded as root. That's never a good idea as well as unnecessary. What's more, I see no reason not to simpy install OO from Debian. The latest is OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 and if we check Debian we see:

~$ apt-cache policy openoffice.org
openoffice.org:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.1.2-3
Version Table:
1.1.2-3 0
500 http://sluglug.ucsc.edu unstable/main Packages

3) For mplayer for Debian (and a host of other video related apps) add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

apt-get update && apt-cache search mplayer

For an easy way to install mplayer from cvs go here: http://kanotix.com/files/

[Radagast]

Thanks for the comments. I have updated the page. My LUG has been distributing Knoppix CDs for about a year. We will start handing out these instructions to our installers and interested newbies.

later,
radagast.