On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:06:28PM -0700, themadtux wrote:
> On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:31, Eric Jahn wrote:
> > The difference in ease of install between Debian Testing one year ago and
> > today is vast. A month ago, I did a Sarge net install (beta 4?, can't
> > remember) and it was a piece of cake, and I could have accomplished it
> > without knowing linux.
>
> So I'm guessing that the new installer is not text based but GUI based?
>
It's curses based, because Debian has to run on 15,395 architectures,
and there's just about no other way to do it on an install, before the
install has sensed and configured all the video and other hardware.
Paul
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