Hi folks,
by way of an install report, I just used the sarge netinst image from
gluck and it worked fine, mostly.
Trying to do a netinstall of the base debs is broken, but i think that's
a problem with debootstrap - base files whines about awk not being
installed. (I had to hack around this when do
Hi
>Why do you people have the idea that a graphical installer in
>itself is more user friendly? Designing a good graphical (as in
>coloured pixels, characters are graphical too, you know)
>installer is a lot of work. At least with a framebuffer
>installer one can reach many more people with a si
ok, to follow up my own message, I'm thinking this would be
for the CD based installer only - most (I'd imagine all)
users of the floppy install would be familiar enough with
debian to use the old style install.
-Thom
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Folks.
Much of this is probably repeating what has already been said,
but here goes.
I, either on line or in real life, continually say to people who
ask me which distribution of linux to use, "use debian". and
they, routinely, say "but the installer is terrifying, and straight
out of the dark age
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