News- Knoppix 5.0

**mkurz** · 03-12-2006, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by mulder170

I found this torrent:

http://torrent.kurz.net/KNOPPIX_V5.0...DE.iso.torrent

Yes, that's my tracker and torrent. It should work quite well. If you have downloaded the image, please stay longer online, thanks

. There should be more seeders!

You can watch the status here: http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=1620

Martin

**nvgringo** · 03-13-2006, 12:35 AM

I downloaded 5.0 from the torrent. Thank you mkurz. I made a version that boots into english by default. I am willing to share it but I do not know how to create a new torrent. If anyone wants to help let me know.

**Harry Kuhman** · 03-13-2006, 12:55 AM

Originally Posted by nvgringo

I downloaded 5.0 from the torrent. Thank you mkurz. I made a version that boots into english by default. I am willing to share it but I do not know how to create a new torrent. If anyone wants to help let me know.

Just a quick thought on this. Since BitTorrent improves with the more people that are using a torrent, it would be far better if everyone downloaded the one current torrent that defaults to German and then you could supply a very tiny extra file that made the change to the DE iso to turn it into a EN iso. One healthy large torrent is much better than 2 smaller torrents, and I would expect that the download to convert one to the other could be extremely small. This would actually be a much better way to distribute the official ISO(s) by torrent as well, the change to convert to EN could be packed with the original ISO as a tiny utility.

**nvgringo** · 03-13-2006, 01:05 AM

Sure Harry,
Do you have such a utlity? If you do upload that and I will just seed the German version. The only thing I did was change the isolinux.cfg file. But most people do not have the MagicISO to edit files inside of the .iso file in order to swap the German isolinx.cfg with the English one.

**Harry Kuhman** · 03-13-2006, 01:17 AM

Originally Posted by nvgringo

Sure Harry,
Do you have such a utlity? If you do upload that and I will just seed the German version. The only thing I did was change the isolinux.cfg file. But most people do not have the MagicISO to edit files inside of the .iso file in order to swap the German isolinx.cfg with the English one.

I don't have such a utility handy, but there must be plenty out there. And not being free I sure don't recommend expecting people to use MagicISO. But since as long as the only change was a change to the default language and the rest of the ISO wasn't shifted around it should be only a change to 2 bytes or so in the ISO. A simple text listing posted here of the differences between your two ISOs might allow a lot of people to make the change with a simple hex editor. But this is a good thing to discuss and see if we can't get a well accepted solution before the official 5.0 torrents come out. When the mirrors were the primary way to distribute Knoppix it sort of made sense to have two versions, saved the extra step of converting the ISO for your language. But with BitTorrent being used heavily to distribute the ISP now it would make sense to download only one version of the ISO and include in it a tiny utility that patched the ISO to EN or even to other languages.

**nvgringo** · 03-13-2006, 01:27 AM

Here is the revised isolinux.cfg The pound signs are important to make sure the file is the correct size.

DEFAULT linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
TIMEOUT 300
PROMPT 1
DISPLAY boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 f2
F3 f3
LABEL knoppix
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL expert
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce BOOT_IMAGE=expert
LABEL memtest
KERNEL memtest
APPEND initrd=
LABEL knoppix-txt
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=normal initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL debug
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=normal initrd=minirt.gz debug BOOT_IMAGE=debug
LABEL fb1280x1024
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=794 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL fb1024x768
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL fb800x600
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=788 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL failsafe
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=normal atapicd nosound noapic noacpi pnpbios=off acpi=off nofstab noscsi nodma noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa initrd=minirt.gz BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL m23
KERNEL m23
APPEND devfs=nomount vga=normal load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=32000 initrd=m23rt.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw
LABEL userdef
KERNEL linux
APPEND ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ################################################## ######################################

**Harry Kuhman** · 03-13-2006, 01:36 AM

Originally Posted by nvgringo

Here is the revised isolinux.cfg ...

I don't have Magic ISO either, can't use the cfg file.

**nvgringo** · 03-13-2006, 01:57 AM

Here is a link to the torrent for the English version

http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=1645

Harry,
The idea for a language change utility is a good idea. Maybe you should post that in the ideas section and someone might work on that.

**ruymbeke** · 03-13-2006, 02:28 AM

Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman

Originally Posted by nvgringo

Here is the revised isolinux.cfg ...

I don't have Magic ISO either, can't use the cfg file.

If I remember this right, Winimage is a free Win tool (demo mode)
allowing you to edit a iso cd/dvd image assuming that the file(s)
to replace have exactly the same length.
I didn't try it, but it should work...
http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm
Best Regards,
Gilles