Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? �Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? NeoFax

Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? �Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? NeoFax yes. �However the stable repository will most likely have older packages than what is in Knoppix. �Some might not even install I'm not sure what Knoppix is _base_d on. �I would go with testing sources. leo

Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? �Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? Yes, Ive never done it but Ive heard of others doing it. �Also Knoppix is _base_d on a mix of stable, testing, and unstable, so if you use stable sources you may run into problems. �It may be enough to use stable and some of the back-ports on apt-get.org , but I would personally go with unstable, especially if this is a desktop machine.

Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? �Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? NeoFax yes. �However the stable repository will most likely have older packages than what is in Knoppix. �Some might not even install I'm not sure what Knoppix is _base_d on. �I would go with testing sources. leo IIRC, a reviewer found that Knoppix is a mix of stable, testing, and unstable. �He/she said it was a real pain to straighten out and lots of things broke as he/she tried. Jeffrey

Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? �Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? NeoFax yes. �However the stable repository will most likely have older packages than what is in Knoppix. �Some might not even install I'm not sure what Knoppix is _base_d on. �I would go with testing sources. leo knoppix is _base_d on a mix between testing and unstable .. if i were you � �and i wanted to use stable i'd install completely new with the normal debian installer - that is not much more difficult cheers stef

Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? �Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? Yes it is, I crossgrade recently a machine this way and mirrored it onto three other machines afterwards. I did it this way, nailed knoppix onto the HD with knx-install, then altered the sources.list to unstable and did a dist-upgrade. There was a minor issue with the locales which I had to resolve. And after an hour and replacing of around 400MB of files on the HD via apt-get I had a running Debian unstable on my system. The only real issue I faced so far is that the initrd creation during a kernel update fails, but I think that one is broken in unstable, because I can't really see any reason why it shouldn't work. So an almost perfectly happy new debian user here. Btw. I have a minor sidequestion, is it possible to roll my own initrd, if yes how do I do it? I want to avoid to roll out my own kernel, the debian kernel structure seems reasonably good to me.