Re: Need Reasons for switching to Debian from Redhat
On 18 Jul 2002 18:24:25 -0000 grante@visi.com (Grant Edwards) wrote:
> >> * The dselect UI is completely cryptic.
> >
> > Ah, after my first look, I never came back to dselect and have found
> > it to be more or less unnecessary. Almost forgot it was there. Yes,
> > it is cryptic and confusing.
>
> I generally avoid it. But, if you do end up running it, getting
> out without stern warnings about breaking your system is (in my
> experience) pretty difficult.
Yep, that's why I never went back.
> > Sounds like your neighbor chose a detailed level of
> > configuration questions (ie low priority) for debconf. I
> > normally go with "medium" which is the default IIRC, and have
> > never seen the lynx prompt mentioned above.
>
> I don't remember ever selecting a configuration level. When
> does that happen?
IIRC, it's after Tasksel and Dselect.
> Are you running woody or potato? Most of these problems were
> in the intial install process which is installing potato
> packages.
I'm running woody. Installed most of my systems directly to woody using
either the boot floppies or the unofficial woody cd #1, with everything
else pulled from my local mirror.
> I didn't note them. All my installs go that way so I assumed
> it was SOP.
Are you using potato boot media, or woody?
> > This sounds like XFree86 3.3.x. TMK, woody uses XFree86 4.1.0.1.
>
> Right. But woody floppies don't install woody, they install
> potato.
Nah, they install woody, but reference stable (which is currently potato)
packages. The key here is the sources.list entries. In most cases right
now, simply let the install build a sources.list for you and then at the
question about adding another source, say yes and choose to edit manually.
Then change all references of stable to testing.
> I've always thought this a particularly odd problem since there
> wasn't anything unusual about the systems. They all used IDE
> drives with a 20M boot partition starting at cylinder 0.
Sounds very similiar to what I use. I would certainly look further into
this problem.
> I never used mouse stuff in console mode anyway, so purging GPM
> is a simple solution.
Agreed.
> My only complaint about RH is that it's now on multiple CDs so
> you can't just go away and leave it alone until it's done.
Ah, a local mirror / network installation is your friend.
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Jamin W. Collins
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