Here's a user report.  Please take it in the spirit of which it is offered: 
appreciation for your efforts, and some advice on what I found lacking.

I'm a debian newbie, but not a linux newbie.  In general I'm not a newbie 
with about twenty years of experience with unix, linux and pcs.  I've 
installed Red Hat half a dozen times now.  (And don't get me started on how 
many times I have to (re)insall NT!)  I would like to move to debian 
because I am apt, or hope to be soon.

Okay so I'm ignorant, but I'm not stupid.  Given reasonable instructions, I 
can usually figure things out for myself.  Now I gather that you would 
prefer I install debian from the network and not by first downloading iso 
cd images, and I want to honor that request, but cannot.  To help me 
install from the net, you've provided the debian boot-floppy system.  Well 
I got to tell you folks, you've tried hard, but you've certainly not made 
it easy to figure out how to do that.  I'm reading through a 90 page 
installation manual now.  The three page quick orientation guide is 
completely confusing.

In contrast in the background I have very easily located the iso images 
from kernel.org and am now downloading them.

My suggestion (and I know you have limited resources) is to set a newbie 
such as myself down in front of a pc and tell them to install debian from 
ftp and watch what they do.

Best of luck, and thanks for all your efforts.

Jerry Asher
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Jerry Asher                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1678 Shattuck Avenue Suite 161    Tel: (510) 549-2980
Berkeley, CA 94709                Fax: (877) 311-8688


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