Hmm... Im still less than enchanted with debian. Storm did install
ok (although I wasnt able to get the gui install to work). I tried
debian 3 times, and had little success.
Debian did not have a gui install, but did have a color text
install. It required me to answer a lot of questions (but it was linear,
I had to sit and wait for each one, I couldnt answer them then let it
do its thing... I also never got X working. It did not find my video
hardware, and even the SVGA16 driver wouldnt sync, so Even
though I tried installing 3 different times, I never got X working. I
tried fixing it, but vi was the only editor installed (couldnt find pico,
nano, joe, jed, ...) and I hate vi.I did notice that WVDial seemed to
setup my modem correctly(hardware 56k ISA).
Im going to have to go back to storm... atleast until the debian
install works.
Jamie
On 1 Oct 2000, at 20:31, Timothy L. Bolz wrote:
> Ok
> Apt-get is awesome. Dselect is awesome. Debian does it right.
>
> I was able to use the Storm CD to get netscape and helix-gnome. So If you
> have a storm CD you can get anything Storm has. Of course it Helix has
> the Storm logo and such but I don't care. Here's how I did it.
>
> apt-cdrom -f add cdrom
>
> It ask for a name for the CD so I put "Storm" in and it found all of the
> deb packages on the CD. From that point I was able to apt-get update and
> then apt-get install netscape.
>
> I would recommend anyone who's used Linux for a while to give Debian a
> try. I switched and am Loving it.
>
> It's funny how someone on linuxtoday said rpm's need an apt
> command. Well after playing around with deb's for a while now I think
> it's a much better package manager than rpm's. Dselect will tell you if
> there is a dependency problem. I like the way if it need's a dependent
> package it will install it. If there is a conflict with another program
> it will let you know. If it were an rpm you would have to search for the
> dependent rpm install them before the program would work. Apt-get does it
> all for you.
>
>
> Tim
>
