Re: Happy Birthday
On 16-Aug-03, 09:59 (CDT), "Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca> wrote:
> > 3) Debian will contain a installation procedure that
> > doesn't need to be babysat; simply install the basedisk,
> > copy the distribution disks to the harddrive, answer
> > some question about what packages you want or don't want
> > installed, and let the machine install the release while
> > you do more interesting things.
>
>
> Fascinating: ten years on and we still haven't achieved goal #3.
>
> I've only been using Debian for about 4 years; maybe some of the
> old-timers know: has this *ever* been true of Debian install?
It depends. The number of questions asked has gotten much worse since
the introduction of debconf. This is not debconf's fault, per se, but
rather maintainers abdicating their responsibility to make decisions and
provide reasonable defaults.
OTOH, all the questions are up front, so that once it starts unpacking
and installing, you don't have to worry about it hanging on some
configuration question 5 minutes into a hour+ install. That's much
better, and that is the problem that Ian M. was talking about, so we
have, pretty much, actually solved the problem he was stating. Upgrades
are more problematic, because the modified configuration file issue, but
I think the benefit of that outweighs the pain.
Steve
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Steve Greenland
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system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
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