On Saturday 15 May 2004 20:28, Syd Hancock wrote:
Only a day and a half to get X and KDE running? And you still didn't have the locale set or Open Office installed? Good thing it wasn't a difficult install!
For comparison, most mandrake installs take about 20 mins including partitioning, installing all the above plus other stuff and configuring the network connection. Plus the time you leave it to read stuff off the DVD/CDs of course so maybe an hour and a half.
That's not comparing like with like. The Debian net install using all the standard options takes about three hours, bearing in mind that all 550-odd MB arrives down my ADSL link in real time as the job proceeds. From a set of CDs it would be far quicker, just as with any other distro, but I prefer to give the broadband link something to do rather than fill my room up with yet more CDs that are out of date a week later. What took a day and a half was learning how to do it manually from a minuimal command-line install up to a complete GUI, leaving out all the redundant fluff you get with SuSE or Mandrake. And ending up with a much better understanding of what's going on.
-- GT