Linked by Binh Nguyen on Wed 7th Jan 2004 18:08 UTC
When Knoppix was first released it was heralded as revolutionary in the Linux world. Its autodetection and configuration capabilities were unsurpassed. Many of my colleagues remarked that if 'KNOPPIX can't do it, Linux can't do it'. Theoretically, one would be able to get a Knoppix CD, pop it into an arbitrary system, run it, save one's data to a partition, USB stick, etc....), reboot and the existing system would be left completely as it was before the CD was placed in the system.
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i know this maybe a little OT but, on a LUG discussion, i was advising someone not to go for debian because it lacked hardware detection (this person wanted a newbie desktop distro). someone pointed out to me that there was a GUI installer for woody that did hardware detection. with other, easy to install debian based distros, they're usually based on unstable which is not ideal. this installer apparently just installs pure woody! why hasn't this been getting any attention? has anyone here used it? i might try it out some time just to see if it's as good as it sounds.
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.html#pgiwoody