Nine Knoppix Addons

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/howlettfami...ix_addons.html

later,
andrew.

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

Quote:

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

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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:

Code:

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~$ 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

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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/

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.