I have just installed Debian on an i386 box. an old 200mmx machine. It took me a few tries to get the install correct.
What I discovered is this: slow down and read everything even if you have read it before. There are so many options that you can choose from, so many menus to look through and so many selections to make that its difficult to keep them all in your head. I ended up writing down all the hardware I had to play with. serial numbers model numbers etc. looked them up on the net, once armed with that info I did some research on the TLDP it took some time, but in the long run I was able to run through the install and got it right. I asked one friend about partitioning he told me how he did his, I was not able to find a lot on partitioning philosophy. once things were set I started the install. being armed with the hardware specifics: the install went almost too smoothly. infact so smoothly I feel as if I have missed something. am still waiting to hear that other shoe drop. but for now this system is working better, faster and more stable than any I repeat any os I have ever worked on. winbloze 1.1, 3.1, 95, 98, 98se, NT, 2000, XP, OS/VS MVS 4+ , system 370, 360, VAX, HP PDP 11's, 85XX, ibm 43XX ES9X, hp100 3000... had I only known.... I would have changed to linux so many dollars ago..... in truth, I have as much or more trouble installing all of the bloze systems. this linux install went way to well comparatively. Granted im new to linux/Debian but Im here to stay. Thanks for this forum btw, its helping with other tuning issues etc. Mike > I've lost track of hows many times I've "installed' Debian because > of making wrong decisions during the installation. > > My observation is that the installation tries to do too much. It > tries to consider all possible choices that could be made, many of > which some users don't need or even understand but don't know what > to do about them. At least, that's in my case. > > If there was a separate alternate installation process where only > the essentials are taken care of, leaving the 'special' applications > to be added after the basic Debian is running, I'm sure you'd find > fewer complaints about Debian. > > Debian is an excellent system once you have it running. It's too bad > that it gets a bad name simply because the trouble people have with > its installation. > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
