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by drewk
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10/8/04 9:41:32 PM
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New Keep in mind what Ben said about perl
From the comments you clearly know your way around Unix. Is the Debian installer bad because it's bad, or is it bad because it didn't do what you expected? As someone who avoids installing new OSes any more than I have to, I can testify that they all suck to some degree.

The only ones that have been easy have done it by installing everything in the world, which I then spend weeks trying to turn off to get decent performance from my creaky hardware. I once tried to put RedHat on a laptop with a 2G disk. By the time I was deep enough into the custom configs to turn off all the extra crap I didn't need, I might as well not have been using the graphical installer any more.

Once Greg sees this thread I'm sure he'll point you at the graphical installer you should have been using.
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Post #178,549
by daemon
10/8/04 9:54:34 PM
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New Re: Keep in mind what Ben said about perl
re-read my rational comments, the installer has a bad design, making assumptions about better than lowest common denominator (in the case of video generic VGA) coundnt find a nic(not a problem) then assumes because it couldnt find it that you could not setup a network config file to get more of the install later. Now ftp adresses for aditional packages should not be deterred because of lack of tcpip. A reasonable installation would assume that a nic could be added and configured later and built the config anyway. Yes the conf file is available on the net but it is stupidity to not build it then during the install then fail the apt-get when an attempt is made without IP services.
regards,
daemon
     Trevor, cowfucking triangleheaded fuckneeted - (daemon) - (26) - Oct. 8, 2004, 08:10:41 PM EDT
         Now try Suse 9.2 -NT - (broomberg) - (3) - Oct. 8, 2004, 09:31:34 PM EDT
             Re: Now try Suse 9.2 - (daemon) - (2) - Oct. 8, 2004, 09:35:56 PM EDT
                 Keep in mind what Ben said about perl - (drewk) - (1) - Oct. 8, 2004, 09:41:32 PM EDT
                     Re: Keep in mind what Ben said about perl - (daemon) - Oct. 8, 2004, 09:54:34 PM EDT
         Exactly. Welcome to the Debian religion - folker pastoring -NT - (deSitter) - (11) - Oct. 8, 2004, 11:26:26 PM EDT
             Welcome to the Debian religion - fucking parsing? - (daemon) - (5) - Oct. 8, 2004, 11:51:37 PM EDT
                 It is NOT about about being PC. - (folkert) - (4) - Oct. 8, 2004, 11:58:10 PM EDT
                     Re: It is NOT about about being PC. - (daemon) - (3) - Oct. 9, 2004, 12:06:56 AM EDT
                         Okay... - (folkert) - (2) - Oct. 9, 2004, 12:12:40 AM EDT
                             Misunderstanding, my apologies - (daemon) - Oct. 9, 2004, 12:26:14 AM EDT
                             Reality check - (bepatient) - Oct. 9, 2004, 09:45:57 AM EDT
             GET IT RIGHT! -> FOLKERT -NT - (folkert) - (4) - Oct. 8, 2004, 11:52:08 PM EDT
                 in this thread Fuck er hmm :-)!= -> FOLKERT -NT - (daemon) - (3) - Oct. 8, 2004, 11:53:24 PM EDT
                     Don't even go there. (new thread) - (folkert) - Oct. 9, 2004, 12:02:34 AM EDT
                     He used Folker (NO -> T) -NT - (folkert) - (1) - Oct. 9, 2004, 12:03:44 AM EDT
                         Re: He used Folker (NO -> T) - (daemon) - Oct. 9, 2004, 10:23:54 AM EDT
         FFF - (pwhysall) - (2) - Oct. 9, 2004, 02:43:27 AM EDT
             FFF thot you were in charge? - (daemon) - (1) - Oct. 9, 2004, 10:48:58 AM EDT
                 If it's a design flaw, it's a bug. - (pwhysall) - Oct. 9, 2004, 12:52:51 PM EDT
         Ben wanted more detail in my answer :) - (pwhysall) - (6) - Oct. 9, 2004, 01:40:14 PM EDT
             Re: Ben wanted more detail in my answer :) - (daemon) - (5) - Oct. 9, 2004, 03:31:51 PM EDT
                 File a bug then. - (pwhysall) - (4) - Oct. 9, 2004, 03:58:35 PM EDT
                     Re: File a bug then. - (daemon) - (3) - Oct. 9, 2004, 10:14:38 PM EDT
                         No need to do sources.list manually - (pwhysall) - (2) - Oct. 10, 2004, 02:38:21 AM EDT
                             Re: No need to do sources.list manually - (daemon) - (1) - Oct. 10, 2004, 03:00:37 AM EDT
                                 Note - (pwhysall) - Oct. 10, 2004, 04:11:00 AM EDT

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