Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
Windows 95 was available on 13 disks, of a ~1.7 MB format (upgrade
version, at least). Is there a significance about that number?
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 07:54:49PM +0200, vw@geus.DK wrote:
> 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
>
> > -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> > Fra: damon@empire.net.au [SMTP:damon@empire.net.au]
> > Sendt: 2. september 1999 13:59
> > Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> > Emne: Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
> >
> > 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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> >
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