On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:50:07PM +0100, Filip Brcic wrote: > ???????? Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:20, Michael Banck ???? > ??????????????(????): > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:32:46PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > > In the past, the Debian installer was completely unusable for me. > > > I could not even figure out how to start it, > > > > You put the CD into the drive and boot. > > Debian Installer for GNU/Hurd, for example, never worked well. For some > reason > they never did install the grub into the mbr (which is not hurd specific > operation). The other problem with debian-installer for hurd is that it > required user to manualy start /native-install (twice) to bootstrap the > system.
Well, sure. The Debian GNU/Hurd installer is just a hack or a placeholder based on some 90s technology. Everybody acknowledges that and I was not talking about that. The idea is to use the regular debian-installer at some point, but nobody has stepped up to do so. Michael _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
