Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?
On Friday 07 March 2014 01:16:05 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have several friends, with Windows XP, who are now considering
> moving to Linux because of XP's impending stoppage of support.
> Normally, I'd just tell them to install Xubuntu. But some of these
> people have memory starved machines, and in my travels I've found
> that, using the Network Install, Debian installs in anything 128MB
> or above. Most other distros, even if they could somehow *run* in
> such memory starved machines, can't install in them due to the
> bloat of their GUI installers.
>
> What I'd like to do with my friends is:
>
> 1: Install them toward the *right* Wheezy network install image for
> their CPU. I've never been able to easily find the right network
> install image, and just sort of used whatever I could find.
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
> 2: Tell them how to use the network install CD to install Debian
> sans GUI.
One problem that they may hit is network card during installation not
being recognised. This is easily remedied, but there are also
install CDs with the drivers. I can never remember where these are
and they are difficult to find, but hopefully someone will chime in.
> 3: Tell them to apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
> 4: Tell them how to make Xfce be what runs when they issue the
> startx command.
Why complicate things for them? Why not have it boot into the GUI?
> 5: Tell them how to make iceweasel play youtube videos (I think
> today I saw someone on this list say to go to youtube.com/html5 :
> Is that a good solution in general?)
There will still be things that cannot play on YouTube and sites that
are not (yet?) HTML5.
> 6: Are you guys cool with my friends, who would all be raw newbies,
> joining this list?
I am, but then I am by way of being a perpetual newbie myself. ;-). I
can't speak for the others. Warn them to reseqarch first and accept
the somewhat rough "justice" sometimes meeted out.
Useful URLs
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-getting.en.html
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
Lisi
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