On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 10:53:44PM -0800, brian morris wrote: > hi - i am getting pretty worn out myself > > putting Debian on a new world mac for first > time lately, a G4. i have thinking now it > it is a hassle. > > i think the installer is over automated and > that increase bug problems. for instance. Default boot of D-I activates the knowledge that is in the installer, all the default answers are sane well thought decisions. You can make the decisions yourself by booting "expert" > a) the partitioning scheme and type i was > given were not much at all to my liking or > need. i was not given any option to correct > this only take it or leave it. i was not told > that journaling was being turned on. > since the partition sizes i was given were > not suitable i am force to resize later. Even booted "default" you get the choice to choose between * Whole disk * Largest free space * Manual partitioning 'Manual partitioning' gives you the freedom to partition as _you_ want. > my backup drive here is firewire and i am hearing > it won't boot a backup. (the backup i made on > scsi with the old world machine wouldn't boot > either, but i was able to run parted by interrupting > the installer - although it no longer tells > you you can i guess you can ... ) That has been reported before and even filled in a bugreport. I don't known which BR number nor it's actual state. That means that it might even be done at least it is on the to do list. > > ________________ > > on more general : > > i for one am no windows guy. I trained on unix > back in the old days and now i am 50% mac at least. > > i like macs, and i like unix. i can't stand windows. > i really can't. > > is this worth it. i have done some work with > Fink project/ macosx.2 jaguar. obviously it > it non-free. i don't like that but i need > to do some pre-production sorts of work. > > by the way fink commander is compared to synaptic > much better ! > > ?suggestions ?? SMILE The Debian-Installer only looks over automated. Please have a closer look at D-I and see why it is appricated by many others. Cheers Geert Stappers
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