Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
I don't wanna start a flame war, but it is reeelly all that difficult to use
7(or is it 9? -I forget) installation disks instead of two?. I had a truly
great experience installing Debian "by the book" using floppies and apt.
BTW: How many disks would you need to install Windoze -about 50-60?! (If it
was possible, that is...)
Debian Rocks!!
:-)
Vitux
Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
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> Emne: Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
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> On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 11:21:36AM +0100, Patrick Kirk was heard to state:
> > I also graduated from Red Hat. Debian installation is a beast but it
> leaves
> > you with a working system that is idiot proof. Red Hat is an easier
> > installation but things fail and you're left trawling the net resolving
> > dependencies.
>
> I attempted an installation of Slink today, and it's been quite a while
> since I have done a fresh install, but I've been using Debian for quite
> a while now (since Bo, at least). I too, graduated from RedHat.
>
> One thing that got me though. I didn't have a CD handy, but I have a
> good net link at work, which regularly get's over 200k/s from
> Australia's best mirror. I figured, I don't need the CD, just the
> install disk.
>
> Now before anyone tells me to RTFM, I had a feeling it wasn't going to
> work, but I had a bit of time to kill... :)
>
> Anyway, I couldn't be bothered doing all the disk images, so I just got
> the rescue and drivers disks, booted up, repartitioned (the whole, and
> only HD). I was hoping it might let me FTP the base...
>
> Nope, no chance!
>
> Then I remembered that some of the mirrors let you NFS mount them, but I
> couldn't find anywhere a list of those that would, and their NFS-shared
> paths. I searched the web, the debain site, and the mailing list arcive,
> but couldn't even find any hints... Is this information available
> anywhere?
>
> Seeing Debian is such an internet-centric (ie., apt) distribution, it
> would be nice if you could install the whole thing with one the one or
> two boot disks (I'm sure you can with redhat). Even if the boot disk had
> a little FTP client (like wget or curl), so you could switch to a VT and
> put them on that newly made EXT2 partition.
>
> Maybe there is a way to do that, but I certainly couldn't work it out.
> You have an extremely minimal, but network connected, installation, but
> no way to use that network. Now maybe the boot disks are already too
> full, but I'm sure *something* could be queezed on. I think it would be
> a very useful feature.
>
> Now I haven't seen the Potato (are we out of Toy Story names yet!?) boot
> disks, so I have no idea what is on them. It's just a little suggestion,
> I guess.
>
> Cheers,
>
> damon
>
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