On Friday 07 March 2014 01:16:05 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: > Hi all, > > I have several friends, with Windows XP, who are now considering > moving to Linux because of XP's impending stoppage of support. > Normally, I'd just tell them to install Xubuntu. But some of these > people have memory starved machines, and in my travels I've found > that, using the Network Install, Debian installs in anything 128MB > or above. Most other distros, even if they could somehow *run* in > such memory starved machines, can't install in them due to the > bloat of their GUI installers. > > What I'd like to do with my friends is: > > 1: Install them toward the *right* Wheezy network install image for > their CPU. I've never been able to easily find the right network > install image, and just sort of used whatever I could find.
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > 2: Tell them how to use the network install CD to install Debian > sans GUI. One problem that they may hit is network card during installation not being recognised. This is easily remedied, but there are also install CDs with the drivers. I can never remember where these are and they are difficult to find, but hopefully someone will chime in. > 3: Tell them to apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies > 4: Tell them how to make Xfce be what runs when they issue the > startx command. Why complicate things for them? Why not have it boot into the GUI? > 5: Tell them how to make iceweasel play youtube videos (I think > today I saw someone on this list say to go to youtube.com/html5 : > Is that a good solution in general?) There will still be things that cannot play on YouTube and sites that are not (yet?) HTML5. > 6: Are you guys cool with my friends, who would all be raw newbies, > joining this list? I am, but then I am by way of being a perpetual newbie myself. ;-). I can't speak for the others. Warn them to reseqarch first and accept the somewhat rough "justice" sometimes meeted out. Useful URLs http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-getting.en.html http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201403070819.06871.lisi.re...@gmail.com
