On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, Brendon Baumgartner wrote: > I mostly agree with his point about not knowing to put the second CD in > while installing debian. I missed that also the first try. I didn't > experience his problem with makeing the symlink, and i'm not sure how > obvious modconf is to a new user. I don't remeber it being mentioned during > install, but i could be wrong. > > Well, I hope his luck improves. I agree it is dificult for someone to jump > right into debian even if they have used other distributions. I spent a > whole day playing with it the fist time I set it up, and still had problems > for awhile. Actually, i'm still having problems to this day, but I'm use to > Debian, so i firgure most of them out quickly... well, except for ALSA that > is =) ...
Ditto from me. I started with Red Hat. It took me a *few days* to get Debian up and running. I still haven't got sound going -- I'm amazed that I have to recompile the kernel just to add sound support. I'm reluctant to do it, as I keep reading newsgroup and mail list messages from people who had trouble with recompiling. Sound support needs to be improved, as Red Hat have done -- I don't know what they have done, but I just selected my sound card and that was it. dselect needs better documentation, and also a nice GUI -- I still haven't figured out how to drive the Select section. Multi-CD needs to be streamlined. having said all that however, I like Debian, much more than my Red Hat system. I especially like its non-commercial nature. I reckon it's well worth going through a few hassles. But again, something happened today -- probably not Debian's fault. My hard drive suddenly got real busy. I wasn't actually using the PC, and I presume Linux does some housekeeping when it gets a chance. Or KDE? Then I started to use KMail, and suddenly my hard drive made a terrible sound and stopped, and everything hung, dead. I did a hard reboot and everything worked as though nothing had happened. That's a real worry. Regards,
