Thus spake Thierry Chatelet:
Amazing, how you can talk about two different world. The old staff did not even take into account USB plugs.... and you have trying to compare with the new D-I with RAID +++++ Most of us have a box about 2 to 3 years old. Kernel 2.4..... did not do the job. To jump a bit had to be done. Purist of Debian might be a bit confused, but as a new comer, and a 'seller' of Debian idea in my community, I can tell you that with the new install you got, every one able to install a complete Window system (ie: with Office, Nero, sound cards.....) can install a Debian system. Off course it will not be as clean as a 'hand made' install. But it will work, and one may expect people to slowly adjust their system. One still has to get his hands dirty to get it to work nicely ( sound, cdrom with music...) but nothing that one can not solve with the guidance avalable over the net.Thierry Jeremy S. Brand wrote:Thus spake David Pastern:On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:54 +1100, Michael Stone wrote:On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:13:30PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote:Yes and exactly that is the point why debian-installer rules, and the windowsinstaller sucks.Yes and no. Take the new partitioner, for example. Yes, it lets you do more than the old partitioner, but if you think it's intuitive you're nuts. And not only is it not intuitive, it's different than anything anyone's used to partition things in debian before. So while it's more friendly for new users, it's like a martian to an experienced user who's comfortable with fdisk. Mike StoneHey, I wouldn't worry about experienced users so much. Is there anything stopping an experienced user from popping over to another console (ALT-F2) and using fdisk?BTW, I like fdisk. I use it all the time. I also like the D-I partitioner. I use it all the time too. The D-I partitioner integrates raid+lvm+partitioning+filesystem selection into a nice tool, much more intuitive than having that quad of tasks happening as unrelated tasks.Sincerely, Jeremy
Thierry,What the heck are you talking about. Your response to my post makes no sense.
Sincerely, Jeremy -- Jeremy S. Brand JBrand@lbl.gov +1.925.296.5686 Unix Systems Administrator - U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute http://www.jgi.doe.gov Lawrence Berkeley National Lab http://www.lbl.gov