My impressions installing hamm [was Re: tech proposal to make manoj somewhat happy.]
Petra, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
> Debian should commit to do any or all of the following.
<snip>
I did a fresh intall over the weekend and here are my (mostly positive)
impressions -
1. I was a little apprehensive that I might have to wait for LSL to ship
me my CD because my particular machine (HP Kayak XU) was notorious for
its unwillingness to run Linux (see
http://www.cs.uit.no/~johnm/os/linux/kayak.html for one person's
experience installing RH on it) and has been called the Anti-Linux PC.
I went ahead and bought a 3Com ethernet card because it was much better
supported. The installation went perfectly. Strangely, I could not get
to the network via the 3Com card. I later ralized that this was because
I had got my static IP address wrong during installation. But I did not
know it at that moment. For a lark I decided to try the PCNet32 card (I
had compiled a kernel with support for it on my old machine) and I was
amazed to see the network work perfectluy once I fixed the problem with
the IP address.
2. I loved the option of choosing the type of installation (Development,
Backups, Scripting, Server etc.) one wanted before proceeding to
dselect.
3. One thing that could do with improvements is the choosing of modules
to install during the base installation. The "help" screen explaining
the options to pass to the modules was very unhelpful. I think somebody
got the documentation from the kernel documentation. It should be more
verbose and explain to the user what various options (if any) do to the
modules.
4. My installation went much faster because I already knew the mechanics
of dselect. This is going to be pretty painful for a new Debian user.
I guess apt will make this process easier.
5. The weak link, measured in helpfulness of documentation, was the
module selection section.
Overall. I will recommend Debian 2.0 highly to any of my experienced
Linux friends and anyone but the absolute newbie.
Thaths
--
"3Com only purchased rights to the numbers '3', '5' and '9', Intel
owns '4', '8', '6' and '2'. '0' and '1' are still in public domain."
-- Linux and 3COM EtherLink Vortex/Boomerand Cyclone mini-HOWTO
Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
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