Re: Install Debian? Maybe
This is the stumbling block that discourages many people from using
Debian. There's a lot of development going on in 'improving' Debian
but there doesn't seem to be any movement on improving the installation
process. I had to reinstall 13 times before I got Debian X to work .
There are places in the installation process is full of surprises where
you cannot backtrack to make a correction. If there were some clues as
to what steps and options are involved in the installation BEFORE
starting it, perhaps there'd be less difficulty with the installation.
How come Debian based distributions like Libranet are so much easier to
install than plain Debian? Could it be sort of an
initiation to an exclusive club?
No wonder there's so much activity on this list. I'll bet that a large
part of the problems are because of errors made in the installation.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred" <fjmusick@netscape.net>
To: <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:51 PM
Subject: Install Debian? Maybe
> I have recently purchase and "official" CD package of Debian. I
tried
> 5 times to get it installed and each time Xserver crashed on launch. 3
> of the 5 the mouse could not be found. On the 6th attempt to install
I
> tried naming it /dev/psaux and it worked. On the third reboot the
mouse
> was lost again and crashed.
>
> I gave and tried Corel Linux. It installed and ran without difficulty
> on the first try.
>
> Perhaps you could look at their install utility to see what they
thought
> of that you overlooked.
>
> Oh yes, I also discovered that I like the KDE desktop better than
GNOME.
>
> Fred Musick
> Bristol, TN
>
>
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