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krazynesphreak
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Posted: Dec. 11 2004,01:54 QUOTE
and, dose anybody have any good, "howtos" on editting knoppix, or is there a version that it just install all of the drivers and gos to a terminal maybe it will be a little eazyer to edit
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Posted: Dec. 16 2004,15:36 QUOTE
>_>

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Most linux distros have become pretty quick with the drivers since Hotplug started being a good bit of code.  Meanwhile, Windows 2000 and up are similarly quick.  

QEMU, on the other hand, has no pass-thru support for USB, no support for "exotic" hardware (ie: TV cards, multiple net cards, firewire, etc, ad inf), limited video support (it uses the bios from an ancient Cirrus Logic card), and is about 1/4x your CPU.

If you really want to be able to "run any os", then I suggest getting an SCSI card and learning how to finesse GRUB.  GRUB's a pretty damn good bootloader, and I've never had a problem with it.  In fact, if you put a bootloader on every OS partition you have (say, lilo for the linux partitions, ntldr for the windows partitions, etc), then the loading code is pretty simple:
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root (hdx,x) // IDE channel 0, Partition 0 = hd0,0.  simple.
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Posted: Dec. 16 2004,15:56 QUOTE
On the other hand...

There's a remastering HOWTO on this forum somewhere..  lemme give you a stripping HOWTO:

restore apt ( you know, the dsl-dpkg.dsl )
apt-get remove * ( will uninstall every debian package )
rm -r /etc/dpkg (will re-remove the dpkg tree you restored in step one )
You now have a COMPLETELY STRIPPED (and quite possibly unusable ) linux.  That won't do.

Starting from the beginning:
restore apt
for each package in the DSL package you DONT want from the DSL Package List: apt-get remove pkg
rm -r /etc/dpkg

Now you have a debian that is stripped as far as you like.  From there, please follow the directions in the Remastering HowTo by meo (last two posts on that page; remastering 0.8.2, and a note that that remastering method works fine for the 0.9* series)
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