Re: Morphix and Debian

Thanks, Alex.

Why aren't the kernel and mods debified? Is it much work to get them
so after a Morphix install?

With the exception of the kernel, I should be able to happily travel
down the upgrade path of all debianistas everywhere, isn't that so?

-D


On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:51:42PM +0200, Alex de Landgraaf wrote:
> Hey Darryl,
> 
> Quoting Darryl Caldwell <[email protected]>:
> 
> > Since Morphix is Debian-based I am wondering how close an installed
> > Morphix system is to an actual Debian installation. Does it require
> > using only Morphix specific apt repositories? Is there much difference
> > in the way the file system is laid out? Or the boot process?
> 
> Morphix uses standard Debian (sid) repositories. We have our own repository with
> Morphix-specific packages, but they only provide packages not in Debian sid.
> 
> Morphix compared with a normal Debian install:
> 
> - the /morphix directory, which can be freely removed after installing (it's
> only there if you would like to make a livecd from the install again :-)
> - normal Debian boot process, however lilo (and in future releases, grub) are
> set up by morphixinstaller (not sure if debconf handles these anyway though)
> - LightGUI starts X as the user you made during the install procedure
> - the Linux kernel and kernel modules in Morphix aren't 'debified'
> - In former releases extra non-Debian repositories were added, but as this
> always causes problems in the future we're trying to minimize this as much as
> possible
> 
> As we're only a group of individuals without the server space or bandwidth to
> keep a full Debian repository online, we try to keep Morphix as close to Debian
> as possible (and frankly, I don't think we could ever do a better job). I
> personally use Morphix frequently just to get a quick Debian install. It's not
> 100% Debian, but it's pretty darn close :-)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Alex
> 
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