On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:44, you wrote: > Hi All, > > Well after the hell that was the first Debian (standard, text based) > installation I tried, I just experienced pure joy with MEPIS Linux. It > is a Debian based Distro (I have been wanting to toy with Debian on a > spare partition for some time now) that is very easy to install.
Hi, I just put Debian 3.0 (woody) on my laptop (IBM ThinkPad 600E). I don't think the installer is so bad, but you do have to concentrate. I will post to the list my final choice of partitions (since this is the decision I had the most difficulty with). Anyway, my question for you is- with MEPIS do you end up with a 'standard' installation (i.e. completely 'stable' packages) or do you get a happy combination of stable, testing and unstable? Since I only put Debian on at the weekend I am willing to discard it and try something new if it is better. My only worry is keeping it up to date, since this is easy with the staid and stolid Debian woody, but a little more involved with Knoppix and its ilk. Of course I will RTF-MEPIS-M, but that is no substitute for hearing someone's experience related. Andy PS The Debian installation went very smoothly. Everything but sound worked out of the box, and a quick Google showed an easy order-of-execution solution. My advice- write down all the hardware settings reported by Windows device manager before reformatting.
