Clarification about long wait for format. A terrabyte drive just takes a long long time to format. There should be a hang-on message every 30 seconds. I think that EXT4 is proven as legacy, and Debian should give us the install time option to go with ext4.
------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein mailto:[email protected] mailto [email protected] / [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Thu, 12/2/10, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: From: Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] The Debian Squeeze version To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010, 1:17 PM On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 07:37:03AM -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > Hi Hendrik and Jeremy > Last night I installed the Squeeze version at home. I had a false start due > to my impatience. > When I told it to use a 460gig drive, the ext3 format started. After 5 > minutes, since I could not see flashing lights, I rebooted, and tried again. > This time I gave it more time and suddenly after the format, I was able to > continue successfully. > My first opinions are that Fedora 14 is probably better than Debian Squeeze. > At least with F14, Ext4 is supported out of the box. Gnome differences were > interesting. I used alacarte from a command line to edit the menus. sudo is > differently managed, and finally, After implementing sudo, I could not find > how to get a command line prompt without ending up in a root terminal. > (Alt-f1 to alt-f5) was the way I did get user terminal. > As I did not spend a lot of time with Debian, I am elucidating my first > impressions. It's worth filing an installation report with Debian. They do pay attention to them. Especially having to restart after 5 minutes of inaction -- this is either a bug or a user-interface problem. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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