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Re: Need Reasons for switching to Debian from Redhat



On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 06:24, grante@visi.com wrote:
>  I like _running_ Debian, but it's too
> bad the initial install is such a nightmare.  Today it took
> almost an entire day of futzing around to get a generic Woody
> 2.4 system installed and running.  Installing Redhat on the
> same system takes about 15 minutes.

As I found the install to be unnecessary lengthy, I've 'installed' the
last few Debian boxes by just cloning the disk and changing the few
things that needed changing. As the dpkg means purged pkgs leave almost
no cruft behind, I've never run into problems with that.

cheers
-- vbi

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