Re: [SLUG] Debian

From: SOTL (sotl155360@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Jan 03 2006 - 08:20:34 EST


On Tuesday 03 January 2006 07:42 am, Ka Winter wrote:
> > My normal procedure is to first try it myself, spend
> > as much time as required
> > to ascertain what I can, ask really dumb question
> > [you know the type is a
> > white house white? Don't laugh the whit house may be
> > a name not related to
> > the color and I wouldn't know that.], ask for help
> > on line in the proper
> > forum, and if all else fails ask for help at a SLUG
> > meeting.
>
> I ask questions like that myself. And I take the
> route you are talking about above as well. But when
> you get into installing a distro like Debian it is
> good to have other people right there. Then they can
> see the error messages as they come up and help and it
> takes an hour or so instead of days of emailing back
> and forth. Then everyone goes for beer and laughs
> about it. I'm not saying your way of doing it is
> wrong, I'm just pointing out that there is also a
> delightful alternative.
>

Hi All

Lost my notes and did a reinstall of a Mandrake system yesterday on the HD I
was using for the Debian tests so I have no specifics now.

For a continuation of my attempts to install first I down loaded ALL of Debian
test. Before I was trying to do an on-line installation with Debian Stable.
Used Debian Test so I would hopefully have a completely different edition of
Debian.

Installed Debian. Debian went through the basic installation up until time t
reboot with out issues.

On reboot it was noted that several items failed [here is where I need my
notes even though there were not complete].
System went through installation. Chose standard Debian installation. Told to
scan in programs. Did 14 disk worth of inputting programs. At no point was I
ever ask what programs I would like installed. System came up running IN
COMMAND LINE ONLY. No GUI was installed.

Now this is on hardware that has had half a dozen different Linux
distributions installed on by which I mean Read Hat, SuSE, Mandrake et. In
approximately 100 installations. I am always trying something new. Never have
I had a problem with hardware. Also as indicated a Mandrake system was
installed on top of the Debian installation [I did format HD first] without
issues.

My only conclusion to this is that there is something wrong with Debian
installation which is either that the Debian people do not want mere mortal
to install Debian or more probably there is something drastically broken in
the system installation.

Well so much for Debian. Another one bytes the dust. On to the next one.

SOTL

PS. If you don't believe me try it.
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