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On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 21:33:10 -0000 (GMT), Pollywog wrote:

>>>Debian's harder to install. One guy mentionned he could install Red Hat in
>>>less than 15 minutes. Hard to have something fully up at that speed with
>>>Debian.

>>     A liar, for sure since a reasonable install would take more than 15
>> minutes, much less "fully up to speed."  To contradict it here is a person,
>> me, who had a hell of a time getting Red Hat to install but has no problems,
>> at all, with Debian and I FTP install each time over a modem.

>Several people have told me that as newbies (first time install) they got
>RedHat up and on the net in 15 minutes, but I don't believe any of them.

    Well, hell, if that is all it takes to be "full up to speed" I can
claim, with confidence, that I've had two Debian installs up on the net in
under 15 minutes.  Mind you, that was just the base install of 8 disks, but
it was up on the net.  :)

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