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debootstrap and knoppix
In the past I've been a vocal supporter of the debian-installer project; it's a much better installer than debian's previous attempts, and it lets you configure, among other things, md and/or LVM very nicely.
Now I've found a glaring weakness: it's based on kernel 2.6.8. This means that it doesn't support the SATA controller in my new laptop. What I really should do is make a version of the debian-installer with the latest kernel on it and release it so that others can enjoy the hotness, but I'm a lazy bastard.
My solution is to use Knoppix and debootstrap. This allows me to use the shiny new kernel already built into the latest Knoppix CD without doing very much work at all.
I know, y'all have probably discovered and squeezed every ounce of hotness out of this idea already. I'm still entertained.
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Gautham wrote
They have 2.5" SATA drives already? Damn. I guess SATA makes more sense for laptops, at least from a form factor perspective (fewer pins)...
repak wrote
surprisingly
Yes. And goddamn is this bitch fast.
Things that rock: 1280x1024 text console. 1920x1200 X. NVidia driver Just Works.
Things that don't: took me a while to get the right modules loading in the initrd. That's fixed now, though. BTW, I am now an initrd ninja, having rewritten a decent portion of mkinitrd because it pissed me off and I totally uppercutted it.
(Actually I did that rewrite on kung-foo because for some retarded reason it insists on loading the generic IDE drivers even if you tell it not to. That's annoying as all hell.)
The only thing I haven't done yet is get the ipw2200 802.11 card working, and apparently the driver is pretty good, so I'm sure it'll be a breeze.
-repak
Gautham wrote
I have the ipw2100 card in my laptop, and it works perfectly with the open source ipw2100 driver. The most bizarre part about the ipw2100 and ipw2200 Linux driver projects is that they were both created by Intel, but are hobbled by the fact that Intel refuses to provide documentation for the chips. Their direct quote for each project is, "This project is intended to be a community effort as much as is possible given some working constraints (mainly, no HW documentation is available)".
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