hi - i am getting pretty worn out myself putting Debian on a new world mac for first time lately, a G4. i have thinking now it it is a hassle.
i think the installer is over automated and that increase bug problems. for instance. a) the partitioning scheme and type i was given were not much at all to my liking or need. i was not given any option to correct this only take it or leave it. i was not told that journaling was being turned on. since the partition sizes i was given were not suitable i am force to resize later. my backup drive here is firewire and i am hearing it won't boot a backup. (the backup i made on scsi with the old world machine wouldn't boot either, but i was able to run parted by interrupting the installer - although it no longer tells you you can i guess you can ... ) ________________ on more general : i for one am no windows guy. I trained on unix back in the old days and now i am 50% mac at least. i like macs, and i like unix. i can't stand windows. i really can't. is this worth it. i have done some work with Fink project/ macosx.2 jaguar. obviously it it non-free. i don't like that but i need to do some pre-production sorts of work. by the way fink commander is compared to synaptic much better ! ?suggestions ?? --- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:10:34AM +0200, Frans Pop > wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 03:00, Sven Luther > wrote: > > > altough seeing as it is a tedious process with > little respect from the > > > d-i team ... > > > > I have on purpose avoided anything like this in my > mail and will not go > > into any past issues here. I only hope that anyone > considering helping > > out with d-i will make their own judgement based > on their own experiences > > instead of taking Sven's word for this. > > > > And yes, the Debian Installer team is very > grateful to Sven as well for > > the hard work he has done for the installer and > related packages like > > parted over the past years. > > It would have been nice to remember that previously > though, since well saying > that after basically kicking someone out, well, it > does sound more like giving > oneself good concience than any kind of > gratefullness. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
