Re: installation frustration
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Bill Newman wrote:
> I'm an experienced Linux user. I just tried to install Debian on my
> Toshiba 225CDS. It was not a good out of the box experience.
I think there are laptop install apps in Debian
> When choosing modules, the PPP module description says something that
> I (experienced with Linux, also some experience with SunOS and AIX
> system administration) couldn't understand about relying on serial.o
> and not being able to detect it automatically. I tried selecting the
> serial module by hand, but I'm still not sure that's what was
> intended.
I took the opportunity to do a Hamm install on an old box. When you select
PPP, you are told that serial support is not automatically selected and
that you'll have to select it yourself. That's all.
> Upon rebooting the system, LILO doesn't prompt for a choice of OS, but
> simply loads the /dev/hda2 Linux image that the hamm install created.
As I wrote earlier, that's a major unfriendliness of the Debian install
procedure. Dual booting is common among Linux users and the distribution
ought to have it as an installation option. Otoh, why ought the
distribution assume you'll dual boot? Afaik, none of the commercial os's
allow for it in their installs.
I think you have a legitimate complaint about the boot/ install/ error,
which is annoying but not too annoying (an install dir seems a good place
to poke about during an install). It doesn't seem worth much of a fuss,
though.
(__) Sourcerer
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