On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:50:30PM +1100, Dave Fitch wrote:
> ok thanks very much Jeff and chesty, apt-cache was the magic
> command I was looking for.
> I didn't run dselect on purpose, it was part of installing.
> I picked the "advanced" installation option first off,
> and got presented with millions of questions and crap
> so I went back and picked "simple".
> The result was too simple!
> I was missing most of what I consider to be a complete
> system.
>
That's half the fun with Debian.
RedHat isn't going it make it fun by giving you a 4 line apt-get command just to
install everything you missed. :-)
> And regarding elm, when it wouldn't compile I played with
> mutt instead and quite like it so might stick with that.
>
mutt 'tis good.
> I heard the debian install is much more user-friendly
> these days, and I guess it wasn't too bad but jeeze it
> has required a fair bit of adding extra packages and
> customising to get what I want.
> Maybe it's easier if you do a gui install?
> dunno, I've only got a pathetic monitor connected for
> installing it, after that it will run headless.
>
> (I can't help comparing it to a recent install of solaris 8
> I did: boot off cd, answer questions on hostname, IP addr,
> timezone etc (probably a dozen all up), layout disk
> (optional step), pick distribution (entire, workstation,
> core system etc) and go away for half an hour)
>
> There's a few oddities though, eg. I got exim as a MTA.
> I couldn't work out how to configure it properly (well
> I can't get it going from fiddling with the conf file
> and reading the man page, so I gave up). So I installed
> postfix instead but can't remove exim without also
> removing leafnode and other stuff I want to keep.
> Doesn't really matter, but it's extra crap on the system
> I'd rather not have there.
>
dpkg-reconfigure exim; apt-get install qmail-src (*duck*)
> But despite a few relatively minor hassles, I like it.
>
> Dave.
>
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