Enough time wasted, moving on

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Anyone who wants the official 6 CD set of woody 3.0
Can send me an address privately.  First one I get in my inbox with
snailmail address will get the cds mailed to them.

I've burned up 2 full days, gotten no help whatever from the list.
Found the install routines to be unusable.

All I hear from Woody is `can't won't or doesn't'  And this on a
machine that has had 2 flavors of linux, 2 of the BSDs and Solaris
(intel) install successfully.  Hardware recognized etc.

My nic is not found, X doesn't run, I get a message after the install
that there were errors during install.  Please fix the errors
mentioned above... none are mentioned.  I've tried the simplicity of
Tasksel and the labor instensive dselect hell, 3 fullbore tries at
installing.

I have a non-functional system at the end of 2 days.
When I see things so basic like the names referred to when the
different cds are requested during package install.  The names the
routine asks for are nowhere on my CDs.  Not that hard to see what is
really meant but only because I'm already familiar with some of the
lingo.

Maybe I got hoodwinked getting them from `The sphere'

When I see things like that gauranteed to cause confusion, I know that
at the Debian organization someone is asleep at the switch.  And can
rest assured that I will be in for lots of unnecessary grief caused by
`loose' organization and homeboy packaging.

One has to think, what else is poorly done here.

But then again for someone who enjoys major unnecessary tinkering. 
Relentless `fixes' and the like,  Here is a chance to get a setup that
will keep you busy for a long time, and absolutely free.  I'll pay the
postage too.

Maybe I should have tried the released version, but something about
the name `potato' puts one in mind of a large overweight weak
vegetable lying on a couch.

At least `woody' sounded...... well .... erect :-)