> I don't have much to say. It sounds interesting for me, to test SID by > doing a minimal "expert" install.
Funny. It took me a full day and three attempts to install Wheezy onto a Lenovo G575 laptop. Ultimately I resorted to creating a live bootable USB image and then doing obscene things like : dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=8192 count=1048576 .. which baked the disks partition table and first 8G of disk tracks. Perfect. Only then could I create a new partition table and get on with the job. I should note that when I tried to use a sun disk lable or a BSD disk label to get 8 partitions ( which is wrong, sun has 16 partitions but Debian or fdisk/parted can't do it .. weird ) I ended up with a unbootable system everytime. Set a partition bootable got me no where. Had to resort to DOS style partition table. Then wireless setup on the pefectly supported ath9k driver was a nightmare for a day. Finally up and running yesterday on wheezy on this laptop and with minimal packages. I would say that the process is still very very far out of reach of the average user and Linux won't be getting into the mainstream any time soon. This is what is a major blockage to getting linux into an office. Users have no clue if it isn't windows and usualy, no clue even if it is. dc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/fb711f45496e.50fd5...@blastwave.org
