James, If they're savvy enough to consider Gentoo, just give them Debian Unstable. Go get a copy of the Woody mini net-install iso, and put "unstable" instead of "woody" into the /etc/apt/sources.list file when you finally connect to upgrade to the full install.
Of course, that limits you to ext2/3 and LILO, while the latest Debian Installer can (will?) provide jfs, reiserfs, and uses GRUB only. Curt- On Tuesday 10 August 2004 14:35, James was heard to say: > I've got a group of portable user's that are trying to decide > between Debian and Gentoo. Naturally, I've gotten caught in the > mix, so I'm looking for thoughts and ideas. > > PS. Woody is way too old of a distro for me to recommend....... -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history
