My Debian Odyssey Begins...

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Roger Prutsman wrote:

> When they see 17 install disks, I think the newbie
> users would freak out long before they hit the command
> line:)
>

True. Luckily, there are always CD-ROMs.

> --- Nathan Saper <natedog@well.com> wrote:
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> > OK, so I finally got my laptop back from the repair
> > shop yesterday, and,
> > too my obvious horror, my Linux partitions had been
> > deleted, and I just
> > had one big fat Win95 install. Vowing to make the
> > best of the situation,
> > I decided to try Debian, instead of just
> > reinstalling Redhat. I made the
> > 17 install disks for 2.2, booted up, and started
> > downloading. The install
> > was a breeze. Apt-get is amazing. But I do have a
> > few problems with
> > Debian:
> >
> > 1) The default install has some obvious things
> > missing. (I did the
> > default install cus I was feeling lazy.) For one,
> > it's missing important
> > devel libraries, such as the ncurses static
> > libraries. This seems like
> > something that should be included in the base
> > install. That's just one
> > example; there are others.
> >
> > 2) Doesn't configure X during install. This doesn't
> > bother me,
> > but I can see where a new user would be pretty
> > freaked just looking at a
> > command prompt.
> >
> > 3) Dselect is weird. This is just a personal thing;
> > I know some people
> > love dselect, but I'm having issues with it. For
> > example, even if I tell
> > it to just grab one package, it ends up wanting to
> > grap 35mb worth of
> > shit. What I'm doing right now is just using
> > dselect to find packages,
> > then getting them with apt-get.
> >
> > Just my first impression. Debian certainly seems to
> > be a cleaner system,
> > but Redhat's definitely easier to set up.
> >
> > - --
> >
> > Nathan Saper
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