It's also the first time I installed debian, previously I used a RH - box. Every dist. has pro and cons, I think, the cons of debian are the relatively large amount of knowledge to master the system. The pros-for me is the estaunishing- "bug-freeness" and the elegance thinks going to work. One is the
apt-cdrom apt-get apt-cache bundle. I've never used dselect, perhaps I'll never try... Peter On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Helgi Örn wrote: > Hi all Debians! > > I am a devoted Linux user, running Caldera at work and SuSE at home > (that's also work!). At home I have a dual boot with Win98 and I always > have an extra partition to run an extra Linux distribution for testing, > I've installed and configured almost all of the most common > distributions. > > Debian/GNU is the most interesting projec I can imagine in the world of > software, idealistically it suites me perfect. I really would love to be > able to use Debian as my default OS. > I installed Debian 2.1 (slink) several times but I was never able to > configure it to my satisfaction, GNOME never worked, ppp never > worked,printer never worked, everything was just a total mess. With > great excitement I waited for the 'potato' to be cooked, and here it is; > ready to consume! > I've installed it, Debian 2.2 'potato' and it's a total mess! Worst of > all is dselect, after the main installation I used dselect to install > some extra packages, took me around two hours to go through the whole > collection. When it came to installing the packages it only installed a > few of what I had chosen, some only partially, but most of them it > didn't install at all. > > Are there bugs in dselect? > > Helgi Örn ---- P.Malewski, Maschplatz 8, 38114 Braunschweig, Tel.: 0531 500965, At work: (MH-Hannover): 0511 532 3194 / Fax: 0511 532 3190, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
