Re: my experiences withthe new Debian installer

2003-12-17 Thread Joey Hess
Eric S. Johansson wrote: enabling shadow passwords question is expert friendly but if there's ever a streamlined path, just assume a yes. FWIW the next release of the installer will not ask about shadow passwords and will generally be much less verbose in the whole second stage by default.

Re: my experiences withthe new Debian installer

2003-12-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Could you please tell us which version of the installer you tried (download location and date). Am Mon, den 15.12.2003 schrieb Eric S. Johansson um 00:06: Issues: If you do not have an ethernet cable plug-in during DHCP address acquisition, retrying with a cable plugged in does not

Re: my experiences withthe new Debian installer

2003-12-15 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Hi Could you please tell us which version of the installer you tried (download location and date). sure. It was beta 1 (sarge-i386-businesscard.iso). unfortunately, I do not know the date although I grabbed it with wget and the file date is November 14. Do you

my experiences withthe new Debian installer

2003-12-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
it's a significant improvement of the previous version however installation process is still very expert friendly. I highly recommend taking a look at the xandros install process. Half a dozen steps and you have a usable system. Issues: If you do not have an ethernet cable plug-in during