Re: InfoMagic's new LDR
> > Hmmm, This makes two straight that the infomagic folks have sent out with
> > a bad Debian distribution on it. Their December, 1996 LDR with the
> > original Debian 1.2.0 was also full of problems. Not to mention they
> > still haven't put anything about how to install Debian in the booklet
> > they include with the CD's.
> >
> > I wonder, is it time to request they stop distributing Debian?
>
> I have also the December 1996 Infomagic cd, it was... a trash. Some
> deb binaries were not there, The x-windows does'nt work out of the
> box, etc. It is as if they just want you to install redhat or slakware.
> Since i was not on the debian list when i installed debian, It was a pain
> to install debian for a couple of hours.
>
> I was even tempted to install redhat just because of ease of installation!
> I think there were many people that were turned off to install debian in
> this dec. 1996 infomagic cd. Have anybody complained to infomagic?
It's hardly Infomagic's fault. I tried several times to install from
a mirrored ftp copy directly from the debian site with the same results.
Perhaps things are better now.
Les Mikesell
les@mcs.com
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