On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:17:18AM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > 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. :)
I use the same approach. I haven't even used dselect since the initial installation, just apt-get when I find that I need something. It seems to me that Debian provides the proper base to allow this sort of installation. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
