RE: [Nolug] Distro suggestions

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:04, Pietu wrote:
> I'm still trying to get debian installed.
>
> My first three to four hours was spent on not finding 3com network card and
> something called bootstrap and unability to write to harddrive.
>
> Perhaps I succeed today and see what's there in the debian world.

Are you installing Woody (i.e., v3.0)? Would you like me to
help?

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> > Behalf Of Mark A. Hershberger
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:20 PM
> > To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nolug] Distro suggestions
> >
> >
> > Tim Kelley <tpk@23rdward.org> writes:
> >
> > > Well, I don't think debian is "rougher around the edges" than any other
> > > distro, it's more polished if anything. The installers just a little
> > > plain.
> >
> > Yeah, that's what I meant. Still, it doesn't always work
> > right-out-of-the-box the way some other distributions do. And the
> > text-based installer shocks some people who think that without a GUI
> > they're stuck 50 years in the past.
> >
> > But if you can see beyond that, there is a real nice polish on most
> > of the software. They've done good work.
> >
> > Mark.

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