My Debian Odyssey Begins...

[Roger Prutsman]

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

--- Nathan Saper <natedog@well.com> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 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
> natedog@well.com (PGP)
> nsaper@sprintpcs.com (cell phone, no PGP)
> http://www.well.com/user/natedog/
> PGP Key ID: 9AD0F382
> PGP Key Fingerprint: 743D FE2C 7F2E 7CAE 4A5F 0B19
> D855 B205 9AD0 F382
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: pgpenvelope 2.9.0 -
> http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/
> 
>
iD8DBQE5mq7H2FWyBZrQ84IRAuVLAKC/CeaDjPtpiGbjKVYdMKI1Ip3lkgCgj0Mk
> 18QXF70oQbWUG/laRSHB+dY=
> =lQ17
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> 
> ________________________________________________
> See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml
> if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and
> you use Netscape to write mail.
> 
> Plug-discuss mailing list  - 
> Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com/