On Thu, 4 May 2000, James Ravan wrote: > Based on my experience with Debian Linux to date, I also take a simplistic > view. Windows has worked with all the hardware changes I have made to my > machine since I bought it this past January.
Linux can be simple too... try to move a harddisk between two different hardware systems; you'd only need to have two floppies with suitable support for the hd controllers to make the disk boots. >I have also been trying to > install Debian on this machine for days. I cannot get Debian installed. The > installation process simply, stubbornly hangs. If I can't get it installed, > I don't care how robust it might be after installation. I CAN'T GET THAT FAR. Experience counts. Problem is, if you had gone that far, then on the second (third, etc.) install, everything would be a bit easier. So, the "aha!" stage needs to be experienced. > I have installed Suse on my laptop, and that was a breeze. I have installed > Corel Linux on this machine, and although it was not a breeze, at least it > installed. And, quite honestly, it only took about two hours of fiddling > over two days to get Corel Linux up. It took me about a week to install Debian on a SparcClassic; but most of the time was spent on downloading the floppy images (done via a 33.6 modem shared with 7 other web users). The installation itself (excluding X, but networking set) took about a day (I had to figure out the wonder of dselect before I got accustomed to apt-get.) Oki
