I'll forward #1 to the boot floppies guys, since it is a valid observation.
#2 .. debian does not do hardware autodetection. If you don't like that, you're welcome to use any of the other fine linux distibutions that do. Harry Putnam wrote: > 3) The real capper to my view was that after wading thru everthing > watching the packages go by. Inserting the various cds. At the > very end there is a message that says something like: > > "There were problems with the install. The same errors may be > invoked again if you proceed. Those errors are not important, the > ones that matter are the ones above. Please fix those before > proceeding." > And the erro above says `There was a problem with the > install'" and thats all. Send me /var/log/installer.log* , and I will track this down. If you're not just here to bitch, that is. > 4) I used tasksel to avoid the lengthy pain of dselect, during one > attempt. I chose `Desktop Environment' Which is apparently the only > thing in tasksel that may include X. Yet I was never asked about > my Video or monitor and there was no choice of Xservers. No > probiing, and of course no X was available at the end of it all. It sounds to me like that would be because X was not installed, possibly because you were installing from broken CD's that did not include X. Which could also possibly explain #3. See previous recommendations to not use 3rd party "official" CDs to install woody yet. > 5) The business about the names of CDs asked for during install not > matching the labels on my CDs is probably a vendor issue, I guess. Indicates you probably got crap CDs from someone who doesn't know what they're doing. > I hoped at the end of it all I would see some way to get things > running. But by that time I'd had enough. I no longer get lots of > fun out of endless tinkering with the OS. After 4-5 years of it, I > just want stuff to work, so I can get on with my tinkering with perl > or C++ or what ever it is I'm currently studying (tinkering with). Just imagine how you'd feel after 5 or 6 years of hand-holding of people who can't be bothered to take the time to file proper bug reports. Oh, erm. > United States > Vendor: Antonio Rodriguez > URL: http://www.the-sphere.org/ > URL for Debian Page: > http://www.the-sphere.org/Linux/Debian.html > Allows Contribution to Debian: Yes > Country: United States > Ship International: To some areas > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CD Type: Official CD ; non-US ; Development Snapshot > Architectures: i386 > > Note the part that says `Official CD' Note the semicolons dividing the three very different types of CDs he evidently sells. Note the "Development Snapshot". -- see shy jo
