On Sunday 13 October 2002 16:35, Nick Elder wrote: > I for one would like to here something on Gentoo. Is the Debian install a > gui? I have never seen or heard how that installs, Anyone want to talk on > that?
(disclaimer: definitely not volunteering to talk on it :) but just to say - not unless they've got one recently, when I installed potato it was text based. although, it depends what you mean by 'gui' - it does have menus, and IMO is not really any different to a 'gui' install except that the text is a little more blocky ;) (that's cool though, I like it that way =) Basically, you install and configure a base system (about 15 floppies worth, or off a CD. heh). Then you boot that and use apt to install the packages you want. And, IMO, apt quite simply rocks. Why do people assume that gui install == easy and text install == hard? It's the same, just that you choose your options with a keyboard, not a mouse. Nowdays I think they've even got a 'simple package selection thing' (if you don't like dselect, or using apt-get manually) where you can select pre-defined groups of packages, to make life easy if you don't really know what you want. I reckon someone with a couple month's linux experience (prolly helps to know your way around a bash shell too) could install it easily enough. Cheers, Gareth
