someone earlier this week had asked about a 'debian for dummies' type of install document that even someone with only a rudimentary understanding of computers could use to install debian. i thought it was an interesting idea, so i cleared out a partition and tried to see how it would be from scratch via ftp using win95. the problem i came across is that i have osr2, which means fat32, of course. the kernel in the base install doesn't support this, however, which meant that i was unable to mount my windoze hd, so dselect was unable to read the packages i had downloaded.
my question is whether it would be inordinately difficult to patch the base kernel to read fat32 drives. right now, anyone with osr2 would have to either create a partition, format it with fat16 and download the packages there, or buy a CD. it seems that one of the main ideas behind debian in the first place is to make it an easier system to install and maintain, while still being freely available to anyone. i hope i don't sound overly critical. i certainly don't mean to be. it's just something i came across and i wanted to throw it out there. :) cheers, matty Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Way f-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .