This is the stumbling block that discourages many people from using Debian. There's a lot of development going on in 'improving' Debian but there doesn't seem to be any movement on improving the installation process. I had to reinstall 13 times before I got Debian X to work . There are places in the installation process is full of surprises where you cannot backtrack to make a correction. If there were some clues as to what steps and options are involved in the installation BEFORE starting it, perhaps there'd be less difficulty with the installation.
How come Debian based distributions like Libranet are so much easier to install than plain Debian? Could it be sort of an initiation to an exclusive club? No wonder there's so much activity on this list. I'll bet that a large part of the problems are because of errors made in the installation. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:51 PM Subject: Install Debian? Maybe > I have recently purchase and "official" CD package of Debian. I tried > 5 times to get it installed and each time Xserver crashed on launch. 3 > of the 5 the mouse could not be found. On the 6th attempt to install I > tried naming it /dev/psaux and it worked. On the third reboot the mouse > was lost again and crashed. > > I gave and tried Corel Linux. It installed and ran without difficulty > on the first try. > > Perhaps you could look at their install utility to see what they thought > of that you overlooked. > > Oh yes, I also discovered that I like the KDE desktop better than GNOME. > > Fred Musick > Bristol, TN > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
