Re: Need Reasons for switching to Debian from Redhat
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote:
>> I didn't note them. All my installs go that way so I assumed
>> it was SOP.
>
> Are you using potato boot media, or woody?
Woody. Usually 2.4 boot floppies, but the "standard"
2.2.whatever floppies product the same results.
>> > This sounds like XFree86 3.3.x. TMK, woody uses XFree86 4.1.0.1.
>>
>> Right. But woody floppies don't install woody, they install
>> potato.
>
> Nah, they install woody, but reference stable (which is
> currently potato) packages.
I watched the packages being downloaded. They were downloaded
from the "stable" directory. Call it woody if you want, but
all of the packages it downloaded came from potato.
> The key here is the sources.list entries. In most cases right
> now, simply let the install build a sources.list for you and
> then at the question about adding another source, say yes and
> choose to edit manually. Then change all references of stable
> to testing.
Things like that just shouldn't be required.
How is a user supposed to know that they're supposed to
manually futz with stuff like that?
>> My only complaint about RH is that it's now on multiple CDs so
>> you can't just go away and leave it alone until it's done.
>
> Ah, a local mirror / network installation is your friend.
Apparently. Though that pretty much nullifies the much-vaunted
ability "install with a few floppies and a network connection".
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