On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 02:35:11PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > Well, Debian doesn't typically install as easily as RedHat.
Actually, I installed Debian on a vmware virtual disk, and didn't really have any problems. In fact, found the disk partitioning utility much easier to use than fdisk that RedHat use (not that fdisk is that bad). And dselect is a really interesting utility, especially the ability to configure the packages after installation. The only thing during installation that was kind of weird was the questions about modules. My understanding of modules in Linux is that it doesn't matter if you have it compiled/installed. modprobe will automagically load it into memory when you need it. Not sure why the installation said you could damage(?)/mess up the installation if you installed a module for a hardware device you don't have. > 4. The organization of the file system in Debian is superior, I don't know, still getting used to it. What I really liked from RedHat is that they moved all the startup files into a subdirectory of /etc/rc.d. Debian (at least 2.1) is using the Solaris style, i.e. /etc/rc?.d -- John______________________________________________________________________ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quis custodiet ipsos custodes icq: thales @ 17755648
