Quote Originally Posted by markb
Or you could simply install Kanotix which is almost pure Debian Sid with some of Kano's brilliant scripts to configure it for your machine..
I have a few different distros here that I want to play with, just to see the pros and cons of each. Kanotix is one I intended to try to install (I have version 9 on CD and have run it from CD just fine), but I figured I would do that for the experience of having done it, and then wipe out the partitions and move on to sarge. My reasoning is that I see so many people on this website that have problems after a Knoppix install - with what seems like they should be very simple issues to resolve (like even wired networking through a direct connection seems to break after installing to HD even when it worked from CD). Knowing that Kanotix is Knoppix based, I kind of expect problems like this also, or at least problems with mixing parts of woody, sarge and sid, which seems to be another problem that Knoppix users are frequently told is why they have problems with ap-get and upgrades. I have heard that Kanotix is better for hard drive installs, but better is a very relative term. I don't want better, I want good, and better than installing Knoppix might still not be good. Are the problems I'm concerned about resolved for Kanotix?

Also, I wasn't planning on going to the bleeding edge of sid, at lesast until someone gave me a reason why I would want it over sarge. I'm too novice to be finding and reportiing bugs. I'll assume any problems I come across are due to my limited knowlede of Linux. So is there any reason I would want sid or Kantonix and you still end up with a sid/unstable over sarge?

Not that I'm completely ruling out living with Kantonix for a while, but I want to know what would be the best approach to take, and I really wonder if using Knoppix or any Knoppix derived system that was intended for Live CD use will be as good for HD install as a normal install of Debain right to hard disk. I would certainly rather have a chat with some dialog box about my sound card than have to track down cryptic permissions to get my network running or find I couldn't install something because my system was a mix of multiple releases.