> Bruce asked me to come up with something to help those new to dselect > when they come to install 1.2 . > > > > Are you serious? You want _me_ to document dselect? > > > Not being an expert might be an asset. The users have my installation > > manual to get them up to the login prompt, and then nothing. Something > > _short_ to get them started with dselect would be nice. An explanation
As someone who is new (compared to most) to unix and Linux, I think a quick blurb to take someone past the login prompt is a great idea. Maybe the doc mentioned above will end up on a mirror?, so I can point all the newbies I run into, to it? I alway suggest Debian now. When I was looking into which distribution to install, many people pointed me to Slack, or Redhat, citing ease of installation. And ya, I guess, both were pretty easy to install, but so was Debian. In fact, with regards to getting things operational, Debian, was much easier. :-) It would have been nice, to have seen, "type dselect" to decide which packages you'd like to install, since I hadn't ever heard of dselect. I just assumed that debian had a counterpart to Slacks "setup", and went out and found it, and more, in dselect. What made me come to Debian, and stay? The development team. As soon as I was aware of what was going on behind the distributions, I switched, joined these email groups and couldn't be happier. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, for the opportunity to learn from your experiences. Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
