News- Knoppix 5.0

**BenGoodrich** · 03-19-2006, 04:52 AM

Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman

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.

I am not enough of an expert on these things, but it seems that Kano has proposed a solution along these lines; see http://kanotix.com/index.php?name=FAQ&id_cat=16#q288

Ben

**Lidio Mozi** · 03-21-2006, 05:51 PM

I am waiting for Knoppix 5.0 CD and I shall need to remaster it.
Do anyone believe that the procedure at
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto
will work as well?

Thanks.
Lidio

**MethodOne** · 03-22-2006, 03:50 AM

The CeBIT version with the English hack looks great so far, but I really want the following things:

-Kano's fix-res.sh script for changing resolution (I got 1680x1050 to work with 5.0 by editing xorg.conf. This script just saves me time.)
-xdelta patch for upgrading the hacked version to the official English release.
-xdelta patch for upgrading to later versions

**jphv** · 03-24-2006, 08:39 PM

Somebody can put de MD5 Hash of KNOPPIX_V5.0DVD-2006-02-25-EN.iso for checking.

Thanks.

Juan Pablo Viglini

**j.drake** · 03-25-2006, 04:25 AM

I just finished downloading nvgringo's English version, and have been poking around. Seems pretty complete, but as I'm looking through the menus, I'm not finding any type of bit torrent client (e.g., azureus, utorrent). Is there one built in?

jd

**malaire** · 03-25-2006, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by jphv

Somebody can put de MD5 Hash of KNOPPIX_V5.0DVD-2006-02-25-EN.iso for checking.
Thanks.
Juan Pablo Viglini

Do you mean KNOPPIX_V5.0DVD-2006-02-25-DE.iso ? EN-version is not published yet.
This is md5sum for my copy, and it would be nice for someone to confirm this, before anyone uses this as the "right" md5sum.

e2d9778c9e6364ddb8ea2b454fd61518 KNOPPIX_V5.0DVD-2006-02-25-DE.iso

**jphv** · 03-26-2006, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by malaire

Do you mean KNOPPIX_V5.0DVD-2006-02-25-DE.iso ?

Yes.

Originally Posted by malaire

EN-version is not published yet.
This is md5sum for my copy, and it would be nice for someone to confirm this, before anyone uses this as the "right" md5sum.

e2d9778c9e6364ddb8ea2b454fd61518 KNOPPIX_V5.0DVD-2006-02-25-DE.iso

My hash is MD5(KNOPPIX_V5.0DVD-2006-02-25-DE.iso)= e2d9778c9e6364ddb8ea2b454fd61518

The same! , I think my download is OK

Thanks!!

Juan Pablo Viglini

**Capt. Cautious** · 03-27-2006, 07:32 PM

"Here is the revised isolinux.cfg The pound signs are important to make sure the file is the correct size. "
Good Day Harry,
I hope I'm not treading H2O here but would it work to use the unionfs to redo the isolinux.cfg file then save it as part of the save config to a FD that holds you linux settings?
Really don't know, just a thought...

I Remain ~ In Service & In Health,
Captain Cautious
2006.03.27

**UnderScore** · 03-27-2006, 07:57 PM

Originally Posted by Capt. Cautious

"Here is the revised isolinux.cfg The pound signs are important to make sure the file is the correct size. "
Good Day Harry,
I hope I'm not treading H2O here but would it work to use the unionfs to redo the isolinux.cfg file then save it as part of the save config to a FD that holds you linux settings?
Really don't know, just a thought...

I Remain ~ In Service & In Health,
Captain Cautious
2006.03.27

This is a good idea and it show you are certainly thinking about how to solve the problem. But as far as I can see it will not not work. ISOLINUX/SYSLINUX is a bootloader that is loaded up so that it could then load the linux kernel. ISOLINUX/SYSLINUX exists outside the cloop compressesed KNOPPIX & KNOPPIX2 files and exists in the standard ISO9660 filesystem. The saveconfig-process & load-a-config-from-a-floppy-process occurs after the linux kernel has loaded.

So the isolinux.cfg is far-apart from the load-a-config process and I do not see how they could be combined without some serious hackery.
I hope this helps.
James

**tomiro** · 03-30-2006, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by MethodOne

Is the CeBIT disc in English? I can't wait to get this! I just hope it displays correctly on my laptop.

You can either download the torrent or get it on a DVD at On-Disk.com.

It took over 2 days to get the english torrent down. Hopefully it's seeded better now?