Hi Colin, Thanks for your reply. Yours is the only one I've received so far about anything other than linux graphic apps ;P Perhaps I hit a nerve.
> The community is often forthright, but I love it. :-) Forthright is good, IMHO. Everything else is kind of a waste of time. > I think you're right that sarge will be easier. I'm skeptical, based on my readings so far, that eas* is applicable to any debian installation (until you already know how to do it). ;P My wishlist: a web-based debian installation simulator :) > With sarge, the easiest approach at the moment is to grab the current > daily businesscard or netinst ISO image, rather than a full CD. Those > images do grab various numbers of packages from the network, but they > take care of almost all the mechanics of that themselves. I'm very nervous about it, but I installed the netinstall iso and (if it dl'd correctly) plan on burning/attempting to install this eve. I was checking out the debian site area on sarge ports status, and it said the sarge businesscard iso (hadn't even heard of that 'til you mentioned it and I googled it) was (broken) for powerpc - new-world macs. > If you want to install with 2.6 directly, use a businesscard image; the > netinsts don't have the 2.6 kernel .debs on them yet. I guess, as above, that's out of the question. If I'm net installing, which kernel do you recommend? The Ben Herrenschmidt kernel? > Network *booting* is also possible, but (a little) more work. In your > case it wouldn't buy you anything. When possible, I like 'work smarter, not harder.' I'll avoid netboot, then, unless all else fails. > I'd never heard of that CD before, but I see it on cdimage.debian.org. I > think it's basically a set of the changed packages from 3.0r0 to 3.0r2; > see <http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#update-cd>. Thanks for making me feel like my question wasn't as ignorant as I'd expected. I'll probably post again after my (most likely failed - due to my ignorance) installation attempt. Thanks again, Jon PS, since this is my first time replying to the list, I'm not sure I did it correctly, replying to all (both yourself and the list). If you could advise, so I don't step on the etiquette, I'd appreciate it.
