Debian distros

Hi All,

What Debian-based distro has excellent hardware detection and installs
fast? I'm thru with installing live-CD's.....the process of upgrading
tends to blow up those distros that are cobbled together out of so many
different versions....

Ray Turner wrote:
Look into Freespire. Version 1.0 is just released. I use its parent
Linspire and have had excellent success with hardware detection.

Ray Turner <RayTurner@coastline.org>:

I'm not sure what you're talking about. Knoppix? Kanotix? I've very
little trouble upgrading Debian (Woody, Sarge, Etch).

Take a look at grml.org; they're based on Sid, so they're very
bleeding edge, but they test things released into Sid before including
it in grml. They've just released a new version. They are a live CD
that will install to HD (or USB keydrive) with a command line tool.
Stick with their sources.list and you should be happy.


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On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:53:10 -0500, Ray Turner wrote:


I don't quite understand your comments. What does installing from a live
CD have to do with the process of upgrading?

I'm quite happy with Kubuntu. I also have found Elive to be quite
interesting.

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:53:10 -0500, Ray Turner wrote:


I like Ubuntu for installing; but it appears that Dapper Drake does use a
Live CD type install process. I've had no real problems with it except for
a first time install or disk drive partitioning error on an older desktop.

I've installed the latest Etch network installs a few times and felt pretty
good about hardware support except for this rather interesting problem on
my T43 where it seems to have problems seeing the SATA bridge on occasion.
That was actually an easy fix overall.

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ray writes:

I suspect he is doing something like installing Knoppix and then trying to
"upgrade" to Debian. The difficulty of this sort of "cross-upgrade" has
nothing to do with whether the starting point is a live CD. Just don't do
it.
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Michael Perry writes:

You filed a bug report, I hope.
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Ray Turner wrote:

Hi.


I'm using Etch (testing) and it works great. So try that. Any
problems, file a bug report about it so that next stabel will be even
better.

Other than that, I would guess as someone said, that stay with one
distribution, if you dont want to mess with package versions that
differ and so on. I have also tried ubuntu and it worked ok.

But I like the real thing, and want to be able to run same distribution
on my media server (amd64/AMD), laptop (amd64/Intel) and file server
(arm/Linksys NSLU2) at home. And at work my workstation (i686) and
some servers (sparc) on same distribution. And that works with Debian.

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:53:10 -0500, Ray Turner wrote:


I've been using Mepis for several months. It has detected everything I've
plugged in except Lexmark -- but that's common with all Linux distros.

DRG