On Wednesday 24 July 2002 21:20, Timothy Bolz wrote: > Does Debian 3.0 GNU/Linux use a graphical installer or the text > installer and does it have hardware detection?
Text based. For anyone with a fast connection: wget http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian-cd/woody-i386-1.raw will download a 185MB CD ISO with a text based installer and base system. Once that's installed you can just install what you need off the 'net. The graphical installer is a work in progress: http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/ A CD ISO of the latest beta is at: ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/debian-misc/progeny/pgi/ If you're i386 based, adding: deb http://kde3.geniussystems.net/debian/ ./ to your sources.list will get you the latest debs for KDE (these aren't from the official Debian KDE maintainer, who has to worry about all supported archs, but they seem to work). The line for the latest XFree is: deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/i386/ For open office check out: http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/ GNOME2 is a fast moving target, but if you want to run it down try: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/burtonini/computing/gnome2-build.html For hardware detection, do: apt-get install discover. If you do that before installing XFree, the XFree install will try to autodetect your hardware (It may be that 3.0 installs discover by default).
