I successfully installed the official 22 Feb 2003 sarge-i386-1.iso, built using jigdo, in Bochs 2.0.2. As with the netinst image, it said the 2.2.20 kernel was going to be used. There were also the same issues of things scrolling off the top of the screen.
Reasons you might want to install under Bochs: 1) You can take screenshots. 2) No risk of damaging your existing disks. 3) You are nostalgic for the old days when installing took all night, and want a way to slow down your hardware to 1 bogomip. To paraphrase JWZ "Debian Installer is complicated because your needs are complicated." Almost all of the questions asked are there for a good reason. And the default answer is usually right. Things on i386 are already in working shape, for which you are to be congratulated! But the sad truth is the only thing people look at when "reviewing" a distro is the installer. And the CD installer is going to get bad reviews because it asks too many questions. How much work would it be to create a Novice mode, in which one answers questions about language and partitioning and nothing else prior to reboot? I had trouble choosing which language to do the install in, now you want me to pick a filesystem? Novices shouldn't be asked this question; ext3 is a sane answer, give it to them automatically. And having picked a CD install, why is the novice later being asked whether to install from CD or floppy? Then later still why is the novice being asked whether to install from CD or network? GRUB and LILO both work, pick one for the novice doesn't care. The main menu has 17 options on it. Fully half are unneccesary for the novice user doing a CD install! The current disk paritioner has a crummy interface. Would it be difficult to grab one of the more friendly partitioners (e.g. DiskDrake) from another distro and use it instead? Sorry to be so negative. I know this is a difficult piece of software to just get working on 11 architectures, let alone making it simple. --Andre __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
