On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:06:51PM -0400, Meyer, David R wrote:
> Are the unstable versions any more easy to install that the stable?
> I've been so frustrated with Debian and getting it installed, using
> dselect and picking the right packages that I've about given up.  I
> want to run it (I run Xandros as a desktop and SuSE & Red Hat as
> servers, but want to move on to raw Debian.

The trick I've learned with Debian is to not try to get "everything
right" in the first install. What do I mean by this? I mean picking just
the obvious base stuff during dselect installation, and getting
everything else as-needed using apt-get along the way. Sid doesn't have
its own installer which means you use the main Debian installer and just
add Sid apt sources, or you use something like Knoppix to do the
installation. :)

 --> Jijo

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