Dear Debian boot people I would like to try out Debian, but I don't have enough knoledge to even read that i386 installation manual and I doubt that many people have.
The installation manual could include tips for non experts. It starts in actually knowing that one is using i386. Not everybody knows that. After introduction, it comes chapter 2, on system requirements. It should be really nice if it was included tips on how somebody (that didn't just bought it computer, but has a not so new and NO hardware manuals) can find out that information that you *required*! As an example, we read "2.1.2.2 I/O Bus The system bus is the part of the motherboard which allows the CPU to communicate with peripherals such as storage devices. Your computer must use the ISA, EISA, PCI, the Microchannel Architecture (MCA, used in IBM's PS/2 line), or VESA Local Bus (VLB, sometimes called the VL bus)." You say what is the system bus. Nice. Then you say that my computer must use blablabla. Man, I probably have that but I have no clue how to find that out! :-( Beginners get crazy reading this manual. Probably the majority of the new users come from M$ window$ world. They should have been covered in such manual. Tha manual is written in such way that it seems to say: "beginners should avoid Debian" or "are not good enough to install Debian." Thanks for the attention Miguel Frasson. -- Miguel Vinicius Santini Frasson http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~frasson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
