Hi Tony
On Friday 04 November 2005 12:43, Anthony Anson wrote:
I've just had an attempt at installing Woody, but fell at, if not the first hurdle, the next one.
Sarge is now the current "Stable" release - Although there are still a few bugs lurking, some of these are addressed in the debian-security repository.
With 640 MB of memory I didn't think a swap partition was necessary so I skipped that. (Anyone disagree?)
I have 768Meg on one box, and went a bit over the top with a 4Gig swap partition. Having had to manipulated some very large images recently with the Gimp, I am glad to have plenty of swap space.
Formatting the drive was not what you would call intuitive, though. I 'deleted' [1] all the existing partitions on hda, couldn't print the 'help' menu [2], found that using the command letters didn't do anything except return me to the formatting page, and I could find no way of implementing the changes I had made.
I understand that the latest version is a lot more user-friendly.
Having seen some screen shots of the newer Debian Installer, the partitioning stage still looks counter intuitive. A curses based front end to an installation is pretty arcane in my opinion.. One reason I feel Red Hat and SuSE have become market leaders is their early adoption of a graphical installer rather than for any technical merit. Anaconda from Red Hat is certainly one of the easiest systems to use - Watching an eight year old installing his first Linux with anaconda (with minimal help) says something.
If you want to try a Debian Sarge using anaconda, I can quickly throw a CD together for you..
Regards, Paul.