On Tuesday 01 August 2006 19:59, Ian bell wrote:
I started in linux with the likes of redhat and suse but they have too much hand holding for my liking and debian is just so unwieldy to install.
I also started out with SuSE, played with Red Hat, and finally gave up on RPM based distros after a nasty experience with Ark Linux.... Debian's install left a lot to be desired (damned ugly then, and it hasn't improved much since).. However, most of the live CDs such as Knoppix & Morphix provide a reasonably painless way to install.
Debian has done much to improve the install system, there is even a GUI replacement under development - Read "eye candy included, but still following the same ncurses based format". One saving grace is a reboot after installing a bootstrap system is no longer required.
Progeny (a.k.a. Ian Murdock) ported Red Hat's Anaconda installer over to Debian and has been providing testing/unstable CDs for some time now. Anaconda may not be to everyone's liking, but it works - I occasionally build Sarge based CDs for a few people wanting to give Debian a spin.
Regards, Paul.
The final straw with Ark Linux - An upgrade for libc6 was made available which was duly installed.... However, the base system did not have a static shell, so the post install scripts failed to run leaving the system in an unrecoverable state.