On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:37:09PM -0800, mal icous wrote: > Simply put the installation of Debian Woody can be at > best be describbed as painfull. In fact so painfull i
Try Sarge. > bootable etc. My complaint with that is - that i > already had existing partitions, and Debians installer > noted thism but it did not allow me to specify which > directories needed to be mounted where. i.e. /dev/sda1 > = /var, /dev/hda1 = /boot etc etc "Mount an existing Linux partition" > To compound this this crap the key strokes / key > squences to get whatever dependences installed drive > me batsh1t and then mistakingly - after doing about > 500 packages press enter at the worng time - and > without confirmation (no going back either) the > installation starts. Yeah. It sucks. Don't install any package during setup except via tasksel. After setup, run apt-get install aptitude, and use that. It's better. Debian was a lot harder than Mandrake or Redhat or Suse. Everything that "just worked" over there required active learning on my part. It took me 1 month and about 15 clean do-overs to figure out how to get all the eyecandy and all my hardware going. Eh. Whatcha gonna do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
