Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree, and if Harry had criticised the CDs then I would have refuted that. > But, looking at Harry's problems, none of them were caused by the > installation CD which (by luck more than anything) appeared to work > perfectly. So, I don't think it is far to complain he used unofficial, > unreleased CDs.
Looking back at it now that I've successfully done the install and moved on. I think the biggest single stumbling block was the failure to find the nic. And the confusing (possibly inaccurate) section where you pick nic drivers. As Corrin and others have pointed out, without a network things are much more difficult. Once someone steered me to the correct nic driver my CDs were fine to get the basic system. Then editing sources.list and installing woody from testing was almost a snap. :-). Problems that followed were minor, but again driver or hardware related. The gpm issue which seems to crop up quite a lot. Still haven't resolved that but it is less significant. Since it does work in X. But here again its something that other linuxs and BSDS have found without major difficulty. Both the mouse setup and the nic. Once a user gets his hands on apt-get and its friends they will soon see what debian is all about. And why some people swear by it. There is truly a vast array of tools here for managing the OS. But as is always the case with a large arsenal, it takes some learning. But back to the problems for a moment: Its fine to say `Debian is not aimed at the same crowd' or similar. That is a fine thing to do, but still things like gpm are so simple a part of other installs, it must mean something is different there. It has apparently been a problem for quite some time. Not earthshaking but there. A final note here. I see some posters are still reposting things said in this thread, maybe some of you missed my outright appology to the list: Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please note too that since getting an install running I've documented and filed 2 official bug reports and a third semi-official one. These are not lifechanging issues but do reflect an attemp to pitch into the general pool here.
