On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 17:59, Ben Collins wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 05:55:44PM +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote: > > Im new and probably stupid so please be patient :-) I also cant spell, > > so pleas forgive ! > > > > I'm not a troll - and im not after a fight, I just wanted to share with > > people my experience of installing Debian on sparc while it was still > > fresh in my mind ! Its a long rambling account - sorry ! I just offer > > it as feedback for the people in charge :-) > > I hate to say this, but it seems like 90% of the "problems" you had > would have been answered in the install docs. So your wasted time was > your own fault. I don't mean to be rude, but you did send this long rant > about "shit" and "crap", and I felt the need to point out your own > mistake.
Well I did say i'm probably stupid ! I didnt "crap" once !! http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/ But what install notes ? Is this another linux logic trap where I have to install to get the notes to tell me how to install ;-) The notes on the above link take you to the standard Debian documents, all I wanted was the sparc specific stuff. Searching debian for things like "xfree86 sparc" gets lots of hits, most are not relevant or German ! I've heard this is Debian type thing, its the stupid users fault for now knowing how my project/distro/system is organised ? Thats number 2 in pet hates next to "read the source" or "its always worked like that" - how is anybody with a life supposed to swallow enough of this to get started ? Jon PS Sorry for the people I've emailed directly - I didn't notice the reply-to address is the user not the list !
