Michael == Michael P Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael On 08/03/02 Manoj Srivastava did speaketh:
I beg to differ. A computer is a marvelous, versatile,
flexible, configurable tool, and, I prefer to actually learn how
to use ones tools.
Michael As with everything in life, I
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:37:08 -0800, Bedford, Donald T. wrote:
a few years back. Yes, my first install on a x86 box as
anything but easy as
I build my own box. But, I now know more about my system than
I ever did w/
RH. This is why I chose the Debian path instead of re-
installing RH on the
new
Craig Sampson wrote (on 12 Mar 2002 at 19:57):
I may have missed something (sure hope so), but what I'd find
immensely useful is a way of being able to choose, at install (or
other) time what packages I want then save this selection 'list'
to a file so that when I next install Debian on
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:57:31PM +0800, Craig Sampson wrote:
Something like 'would you like to import package selections
from floppy (or other) disk' would be just great.
It is there. Recently installed woody on about 20 machines with the
following method:
1. On some
on the
new system.
Auto-detect would be nice but I sure learned a lot when it didn't...
-don
-Original Message-
From: Oki DZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 4:42 PM
To: Michael Marziani
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: The future of Debian install
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:37:08AM -0800, Bedford, Donald T. wrote:
Yes, if I may pipe-in on this one... I am a Debian newbie from the RH world
a few years back. Yes, my first install on a x86 box as anything but easy as
I build my own box. But, I now know more about my system than I ever did w/
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:19:59 -0500
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 08/03/02 Manoj Srivastava did speaketh:
I beg to differ. A computer is a marvelous, versatile,
flexible, configurable tool, and, I prefer to actually learn how
to use ones tools.
As with
Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote:
Well, I don't know how RH goes now, but the first RH distribution I test
about seven years ago (4.x or so...) has an installation like the one Debian
has today.
The install part on RH is better than what's in Debian, even today;
especially when it goes to
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From: Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Michael Marziani [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: The future of Debian install??
Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote
On Friday 08 March 2002 06:55, Oki DZ wrote:
Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote:
The install part on RH is better than what's in Debian, even today;
especially when it goes to X. I never said that fresh install in Debian
was easier. On Debian, it is a _lot_ easier when installing individual
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To: Oki DZ
Cc: Michael Marziani; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: The future of Debian install??
On Friday 08 March 2002 06:55, Oki DZ wrote:
Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote:
The install part on RH is better than what's in Debian
on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote:
Well, I don't know how RH goes now, but the first RH distribution I test
about seven years ago (4.x or so...) has an installation like the one
Debian has today.
The install part on RH is better than
Francisco == Francisco M Marzoa Alonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Francisco An elitist... well, if you can configure X from scratch
Francisco faster than the computer itself, then you should think
Francisco about go to the Guinness show. Computers are done to make
Francisco our lifes easy and
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:12:53AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Francisco == Francisco M Marzoa Alonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Francisco An elitist... well, if you can configure X from scratch
Francisco faster than the computer itself, then you should think
Francisco about go to the
On Friday 08 March 2002 13:36, David Jardine wrote:
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:12:53AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Francisco == Francisco M Marzoa Alonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Francisco An elitist... well, if you can configure X from scratch
Francisco faster than the computer
On 08/03/02 Manoj Srivastava did speaketh:
I beg to differ. A computer is a marvelous, versatile,
flexible, configurable tool, and, I prefer to actually learn how
to use ones tools.
As with everything in life, I prefer to have the choice. I'm using Debian
because it's the best,
Michael Marziani wrote:
I've installed debian quite a few times and it's not a big deal, but
every once in a while I wish it would just auto-detect my network card,
graphics card, etc just to save me the trouble of looking them up. Not
to mention that xfree86setup is a pain.
Try to ask
On 05-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote:
I've installed debian quite a few times and it's not a big deal, but
every once in a while I wish it would just auto-detect my network card,
graphics card, etc just to save me the trouble of looking them up. Not
to mention that xfree86setup is a pain.
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 04:46:23PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 05-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote:
I've installed debian quite a few times and it's not a big deal, but
every once in a while I wish it would just auto-detect my network card,
graphics card, etc just to save me the
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 01:41, Oki DZ wrote:
Michael Marziani wrote:
I've installed debian quite a few times and it's not a big deal, but
every once in a while I wish it would just auto-detect my network card,
graphics card, etc just to save me the trouble of looking them up. Not
to
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