[TriLUG] Debian installation.

al johson alfjon at mindspring.com
Thu May 22 11:51:46 EDT 2003


And there ARE simpler installation loaders being developed for Debian.
Knoppix has a great one (on their demo disk at least), and I'm aware of
another as well, which I'm trying to get my hands on, which is popular in
South America called Libranet. If you believe the review in Lockergnome's
Penguin Shell newsletter, it makes installing Debian Linux almost as easy as
installing Red Hat and Mandrake. Unfortunately, the author of that
newsletter has left and the new editor says that she isn't going to install
and give reports on all the various "flavors" of  Linux (it seems she's
"married" to RedHat :-). Yes, there are still differences, but never assume
that anything in the Linux world is static.

    One thing you CAN bet on Linux in all its flavors is in a constant state
of improvement, which is why I like it so much, especially considering the
alternative (where instead of real improvements all you get are new bugs and
problems which are definitely not better than their earliest version!!).

So if you don't want to do a difficult, manual (non-GUI) install of Debian,
just watch and wait!!

Remember there are literally more distributions of Linux than anyone can try
out, and some of them are Debian!!---Al Johnson.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tarus Balog" <tarus at sortova.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Debian installation.


>
> Ken Wahl said:
>
> > Thanks, this was useful for me.  I've been a Red Hat user since 6.2 and
> > I was thinking of giving Debian unstable a whirl.  I wanted to ask for
> > this very type of feedback from RedHat users about their experiences
> > installing Debian but was afraid the question would come off as a troll
> > and/or start a distro war.
>
> I just rebuilt my main server this morning (with a Debian wizard's help)
> and the one thing to emphasize is that Debian's install doesn't seem to
> auto-detect hardware as well as Red Hat's install process. So be sure to
> know the manufacturer and model of your network card, graphics card, etc.
> (those were the two I needed, and it only needed to be as specific as
> "EtherExpress Pro" and "ATI"). Outside of that it was pretty slick.
>
> What I liked about woody is that since the new CDs are out, there was very
> little that had to be downloaded to get current stable.
>
> Finally, if you want the latest kernel, start the process with disk number
> 5 - that will install 2.4.18 - and then insert disk number 1 when asked.
>
> -T
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