On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:29:30PM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: [...] > I won't dwell upon what a horror my first Debian experience (woody) was, > you've all heard it enough to motivate the new installer. Which is why > I'm writing this. > > I screwed up my courage to take another chance at Debian, using the new > netinst CD. This is definitely a good step forward, but there are some > issues I wanted to report. Until I get comfortable with it, I begin by > bringing up a new distro as a VMware guest running under a RedHat 8.0 host > and all comments below are relative that environment. I opted for the > 'test' (sarge) installation, since woody is hopelessly backlevel for > almost anything I'd need to run: My first reaction on you post was that the Sarge installation program a.k.a. "debian-installer", is only beta yet and I would not really recommend it for a real install. Instead I would recommend installing Woody, but only the base system, no ordinary packages, and then upgrade to Sarge and install all normal packages from Sarge. However, your installation seems to have been pretty successful. When I tried the "debian-installer" some two weeks ago, I didn't get through the keyboard selection phase :-) Since Debian is so good at upgrades, installing (the base system from) Woody is a very viable alternative, even if you find the applications in Woody hopelessly outdated. If your problems with Woody were with the installation of base system just ignore this post. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net>
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