> Surely the main hindrance to debian as a first introduction to linux is
> the install itself. If we help someone with the install then
> administering the system is probably no more difficult than any other
> distribution. What do other sluggers think?
>
> Ken
Yep, this dselect thing is really fsck'd (imho). The rest of it seems ok so
far, altho the 6 floppies needed for a standard non-cd-boot install was
nearly enuf to force a return to Slack7.1. ;)
Still, at least the install never crashed partway thru, like most versions
of dead rat from 4 to 6.1... ;) And I liked the menu prompted kernal
config & suggested changes (eg, I was prompted to remove PCMCIA etc).
Now its up I guess its time to find what works and what doesn't... Anyone
want to place a bet on whether X works out of the box? its all stocky
standard hardware... (or did I need to find X stuff in that fscked dselect
thing?)
Further whinges/praises of debian will be available as they come to hand ;)
Cheers,
Marty
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