Linked by Alexander Antoniades on Thu 5th Dec 2002 21:58 UTC
It's easy to grow increasingly cynical the more you follow "innovation" in operating systems and software. New releases often turn out to be nothing more than reinventing, or repackaging, the wheel, with new icons and steeper system requirements. Yet every now and then persistence pays off and that lengthy download or poorly written web site delivers something truly amazing and faith in the future of computing is, albeit temporarily, restored. I experienced such a sensation a couple of months ago when I downloaded the CD-ROM based, Linux distribution known as Knoppix. 
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Knoppix is really useful as a quick, easy way to install Debian. I am very happy with it, but had just a few very minor problems with the script that installs knoppix onto a hard drive.
I tried installing onto a drive with a bunch of partitions, and it overwrote the bootloader with its own lilo, which didn't work. Instead of a menu, I just got an endless stream of "L 02 02 02 02 ...." So, I booted of the knoppix CD and installed grub by hand, and that worked fine.
The other little catch was that it used ext2 by default (I just assumed it would make a better choice, seeing that the kernel is configured to support ext3, xfs, reiserfs, etc). I only realized when I had a power outage and fsck complained; then I manually converted to ext3, and all is well.