> > most new installers install from a cd > > At home, yes...
Hi All, consider this purely FYA, if not simply gonzo - I'll defend no claim to it being a valid generalisation ;-) but my friends and I had a little chuckle about this claim in the hamm distribution. Mainly because it was our own experience that a floppy install ( and large doses of ftp ) was in fact the most reliable and painless way to successfully install hamm, at least on 'old' hardware ( ie. 486's and non-atapi cdroms ), despite claims of just the opposite in the install docs.. ;-) But perhaps relevant to here is the thought that many people may in fact try debian from an online download before they commit to buying a CD, after all not only are they often making a big step from the OS their box probably came packaged with, but they may also be deciding between a number of available linux distributions.. ( excepting of course those who get it rammed down their throats by enthusiastic friends, but the install docs in that case will be secondary to the preferred ( and probably well tested ) methods of their friends/benefactors ;-) Their upgrades will almost certainly come from online.. in our experience at least, a set of CD's are a great (and cheap, fast..) offline archive, but debian *lives* online. ( and it always seems easier to explain ftp and bad package recovery to someone, than something like, what we mean by "potato is 'unstable'" - after all, many 'new installers' already have firm concepts of both.. ) anyhow, thats probably 2c worth by now.. don't send it in cash, micropayments are something else greedy idiots screwed up. And if you haven't heard me say it before - Heartfelt THANKS. To all who've thus contributed. best, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
